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Petro Poroshenko promises to amend law about education

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Petro Poroshenko promises to amend law about education


12.10.2017

flickr/skhakirov CC BY-SA 2.0Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised that Kiev would amend a new law about education, Lenta.ru reports. He made this statement today during his presentation at Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe.

According to the Ukrainian President, Ministry of Education is to consider conclusions of the Venice Commission and to amend all ambiguous articles. It is worth reminding that the Venice Commission of Council of Europe has concluded that there should be a reasonable balance between the role of Ukrainian as a state language and necessity to protect languages of the national minorities and regional dialects.

Hungarian Foreign Affairs’ Minister Peter Siyyarto claimed several days ago that Budapest would be planning to initiate reconsideration of Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement. The reason for this decision is a new law infringing this Agreement depriving national minorities of their right for education in their national languages.

Last month Poroshenko signed amendments to the law About Education, which basically prohibits teaching in any other languages but the Ukrainian language. According to this document, children will be able to study in minority languages including Russian at the initial grades only. Starting fifth grade all school subjects will be taught in the Ukrainian language only. This will be a norm until 2020, after that Russian together with other languages will be excluded from the school curriculum at all.

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