CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova’s education minister said on Monday that schools would keep teaching the subject “history of the Romanians,” despite an official ruling that the term was unfair to the ex-Soviet state’s ethnic minorities.

Dan Perciun issued his statement amid a debate over a history textbook denounced by pro-Russian opposition parties and Moldova’s Jewish community on grounds it exaggerates Moldova’s links with neighbouring Romania and whitewashes the actions of Romania’s pro-Nazi wartime leader Ion Antonescu.

“We are continuing in the same vein as before,” Perciun said in his weekly online address. “After 150 years of Russification, we believe that we can and must study the history of the Romanians in our schools.”

Perciun said he felt no need to be bound by a recommendation

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