Saturday, 1 November 2014

Putin’s Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks - NYTimes.com

"MOSCOW — The purge began in late winter. One by one, hundreds of textbooks that Russian schoolchildren had relied upon for years were deemed unsuitable for use in the country's 43,000 schools. The reasons varied, but they shared a certain bureaucratic obstinacy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/world/europe/putins-friend-profits-in-purge-of-schoolbooks.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe®ion=Footer&module=TopNews&pgtype=article


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