After the Crimean referendum, which resulted in the reunification of the peninsula with Russia, some Kazakh textbooks marked Crimea as part of the Russian Federation, a statement of a Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Kazakhstan said.
"Due to the fact that textbooks in secondary schools, issued by the Kazakh publishing house Mektep, specify the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as the subject of the Russian Federation, the embassy of Ukraine filed a protest note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan," the document said, as cited by Kazakhstan News.
Kiev believes that the spread of this information by the publishing house doesn't conform to the position of the international community and the government of Kazakhstan.
The West and Kiev did not recognize the legitimacy of the vote, imposing sanctions on Russia over what it calls the Crimean "annexation." Moscow has pointed out that the referendum was held in accordance with international law.
