Fire hits Russian publishers involved in Ukrainian textbook controversy

A few days after reports that publishers removed references to Ukraine from national textbooks, a fire broke out in a warehouse holding Russian textbooks.

Firefighters were summoned to a warehouse owned by the Prosveshchenie publisher in Bogorodsky, eastern Moscow, at 3 am on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations told the state that the flames went out in just over four hours. TASS News agency.

Printed matter such as textbooks were stored in the warehouse.

The fire follows reports that Prosveshchenie, one of Russia’s largest and oldest educational publishers, has ordered staff to remove “inappropriate” references to Ukraine and Kieu from textbooks.

Staff told an independent Russian press Mediazona References to Ukraine were removed from the company’s textbooks after Moscow invaded Ukraine on February 24th.