A group of Russian historians who researched close to 200 textbooks in 12 post-Soviet republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine - accused most of these countries of teaching schoolchildren "nationalist" history that generally criticized Russia, the "deadly enemy."
With the exception of Belarus and Armenia, all of the other countries received criticism.
Some of the historians said that many textbooks have minimized "all of the good things that the former Soviet peoples [Imedia: as in nations] received after living close to the great Russian people."
A full press-release from the organization is available here.
Only the Russian version is available, no English version of the story seems to have been posted online yet.
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This is a pretty good summary of the story in English.
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