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25.02.2019
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Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid thinks that the elimination of Russian-language education in the country will provide equal opportunities for its residents. She said that the majority of titular population and many Russian-speaking citizens allegedly supported shifting all schools in the country to the state language, Izvestiya newspaper writes.
Kaljulaid stated that the path to realization of this idea is long and expensive. At the same time, President is sure that destruction of Russian schools will help protect the independence, language and culture of Estonia.
As Russkiy Mir reported, the shift of studies into Estonian is taking place in this Baltic country in line with state policy. The number of Russian schools is declining from year to year, and today there are 74 of them in Estonia. The law on the universal transfer of schools to state language has not been adopted yet, but Kaljulaid has previously promised that Estonian-language system will cover all schools in the country in the coming years.
It should be recalled that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Tallinn’s suggestion about common schools for Russian-speaking and Estonian-speaking children unacceptable. In his opinion, this idea is not in the interests of Russian-speaking minority.
The ministry expressed concern about the situation in which Russian-language education in Estonia found itself. Tallinn is trying to cover up shifting all schools to the state language with the idea of so-called “united school”. It is assumed that both Russian and Estonian children will study there. However, the learning process will be based on Estonian.
Some Estonian politicians cynically declare that the changes are carried out for the sake of Russian-speaking schoolchildren and their parents. They even claim that students of Russian schools are asking for it themselves. At the same time, it is impossible to hide the fact that odious plans for the abolition of education in their native language are being ignored under supposedly good intentions.
Russkiy Mir