At the end of June 2025, the media and Telegram channels distributed a video in which the Minister of Education of Estonia Kristina Callas, states, cannot solve a simple arithmetic example. We checked the reliability of such publications.

An excerpt from an interview with an official was a viral on June 29. The estonocusal video with a callas laid on top of the Russian -speaking voice acting that education does not boil down to mathematical formulas, after which the interviewer asks her how many 8 will multiply by 4. In response to this question, the Minister of Education of Estonia begins to laugh and says that he does not know.

The fact that Callas could not cope with this elementary mathematical task. Russia Today, Lenta.ru, Life.ru, "Komsomolskaya Truth","Russian newspaper","Tsargrad","Gazeta.ru" And Eadaily. The video distributed Telegram channels "Live broadcast • News"(830,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(236,000),"Putin in Telegram"(215 000),"Zlaya Prof"(215 000),"Uncle Glory"(193 000), Colonelcassad (184,000), "Russia now • News"(168 000) and others.

Reveal search by a screenshot from the video showed that this is a fragment video, located on the YouTube channel of the Estonian publication Levila. Although the episode has become a viral only now, the video itself is already almost six months - it has been published on January 15. The heroine of the interview, which lasts 6.5 minutes, is really Christina Kallas, who since 2023 occupies The post of Minister of Education and Science of Estonia.

Complete interview with Christina Callas

The interviewer asked Kallas questions about the local education system. The official, referring to results The Pisa International Test, called school education in Estonia one of the best in the world, after which the interlocutor asked when they stopped applying bodily punishments in schools and whether it was possible to return them to cope with the hooligans. Callas replied that this method is ineffective, and at 3:35 mark pronounces The phrase falling into the viral video: "Education is not only mathematical formulas." After that, the interviewer and asks Kallas, how much 8 would multiply by 4. She answers with a smile: “I don’t know” - and asks the interlocutor to answer. He correctly decides an example, and the minister completes the dialogue, saying: "You see."

All 6.5 min. The interviewer asks the minister comic questions. For example, he asked questions about her father Siyme (so The name is the father of the former Prime Minister of Estonia and the current head of European diplomacy of KAI CALLAS, but Christina is only her namesake), the ethics of love relations between teachers and students, etc. The interviewer showed the Minister of the video closer to the end of the conversation, in which he came to “charge the hooligan magic pendulum” to the building of the Estonian parliament, after all, this place, in his opinion, in his opinion, in his opinion It has a "strong hooligan aura."

The interviewer is a well -known comedian in Estonia, speaking under the pseudonym Mailed. He takes comic interviews with politicians, public figures and stars, for example football player Ragnar Klavan and Archbishop Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church by Urmas Viilma. Maiduk asks his guests absurd and provocative questions about their field of activity, and sometimes even offers non -standard solutions to state problems. So, Marta Osklaseva, who at the time of the interview with the post of Minister of Finance, Mailed Offered Close the budget deficit by investing € 12 million in cryptocurrency.

Why a fragment from the January comic interview with Callas became viral in Runet in June is unknown. In Estonian language, this episode with comments that the Minister of Education does not know the multiplication table, did not become distributed either then or now.

The first such post in Russian appeared June 28 at 16:55 Moscow time at the Fox News Russia Telegram channel. A video of the Tiktok user with the userneum @georgirudi was attached to this publication. This Russian -speaking blogger from Estonia Published An excerpt from an interview with Callas, along with his misleading comments in February. It was in the voice acting used by @georgirurudi that the video began to spread through Telegram channels, especially actively-after publications In the Batkovich channel on the evening of June 29. Both these channels Previously, they became the primary sources of fake publications. In addition to Russian-speaking Telegram channels, a large number of publications for tens of thousands of views are also found in X-as on Russian, and on English language.

Thus, a fragment in which the Minister of Education of Estonia cannot multiply 8 by 4 is cut out of the comic interview that she gave to the local comedian. It is unlikely that such a conversation can serve as evidence that Christina Kallas does not know the multiplication table.

Photo on the cover: Facebook / Kristina Kallas