Ukrainian high schools not allowed to teach in Russian

Ukrainian Parliament has accepted a new law on educational system, Lenta.ru informs. The draft law bans teaching in any language but Ukrainian.

Verkhovna Rada members accepted the draft in the second reading. According to this document children of lower grades are allowed to study in languages of national minorities including Russian. Starting the fifth grade, all subjects will be taught in Ukrainian only. This will be the rule until 2020, later Russian and other languages will totally disappear from the school curriculum.

It is worth reminding that earlier it became known that all schools were shifted into teaching in Ukrainian in Kherson region. Local administration called this ‘conceptual state position’. They were sure there would be no problems with studying materials, pedagogical staff because all teachers are quite ready to teach in Ukrainian.

At the beginning of this year, Ukrainian Ministry of Education has decided that school children do not need to study literary works by Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. Instead of classics highly valued in the whole world, officials offer to study writings of Ronald Dale, Ray Bradbury and Harper Li.

The world literature curriculum now contains only such representatives of Russian classics as Mikhail Bulgakov born in Kiev and Nikolay Gogol born in Poltavskaya Guberniya.

Russkiy Mir