In June 2025, Russian-speaking Telegram channels reported that the authors of the allowance for Portuguese schoolchildren included Crimea in Russia. We checked the reliability of such publications.
The viral photograph depicts, presumably, a page from the Portuguese textbook of geography. One of the illustrations on it is signed as the "Crimean plateau, Russia." “The blessing is walking around Europe. <...> Portuguese-respect, ”commented the picture in the Telegram channel"Front bird"(24,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). The photo also appeared in the channels “Ostashko! Important "(twice, 103,000 And 99,000 Views), ""Crimea incident accident"(33,000),"News Crimea"(27,000),"Pavel Onishchenko News"(12,000) and other notes on this subject were published by some News resources.
All messages are illustrated by the same photography - this often happens with the spread of falsified information. Moreover, the pro-Khremlin Telegram channels have already reported that the authors of European textbooks on geography allegedly began to recognize the Russian annexation of Crimea and other regions of Ukraine. In October 2022, they distributed a similar map from, as claimed, Spanish textbook. However, how it turned out, the photograph was forged and first appeared in the anonymous Telegram channel, and the original, on which Ukraine is depicted within international boundaries, was not taken from the Spanish manual, but from the Mexican.
With the help of a reverse search for the images, “verified” found the source of the picture that spread in June on Telegram channels. May 29, 2025 Laid On his page on Facebook chapter Association of Ukrainians in Portugal Pavlo Sadokha. He also published a cover of benefits (this Textbook on geography For students of the 7th grade) and another page from it: it depicts a map of Europe in the 9th-12th centuries, and the territory on which the part of modern Ukraine is located is signed as the “Russian principality”.
The text itself was an appeal in Main Inspectorate of Education and Science Portugal. Sadokha asked to check from what sources the authors of the textbook took information, and make the necessary corrections to the allowance. He noted that his attention to this problem was attracted by a Ukrainian refugee, a student of the 7th grade of the Portuguese school, who was forced to leave his country and experiences severe psychological stress due to Russian aggression.
On June 6, Sadokha published another post in which Reportedthat according to the results of his appeal, the Main Inspectorate of Education and Science began a test in relation to this textbook. Soon the head of the World Coordinating Educational Council of the World Congress of Ukrainians Lyubov Lyubchik She saidthat the organization begins the process of studying, analyzing and verification of information regarding Ukraine in textbooks of history and geography of different countries.
Thus, one of the Portuguese geography textbooks really says that Crimea is located in Russia. This was first reported by Ukrainian activists, and the authorities of Portugal began verification of their appeal.
Photo on the cover: Telegram screenshot
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