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Ukrainian schoolchildren will no longer study Russian language and literature, RIA Novosti reports. The Ministry of Education removed these subjects from the school curriculum.
The works of Russian and Belarusian authors will not be taught at schools, with some exceptions. Writers who wrote in Russian but are closely connected with Ukraine will be included in the course of foreign literature. The list includes Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov.
The school history course will be edited. The Soviet Union will be called an "imperial-type government" that promoted a "Russification policy" and "appropriated sovereignty" for Ukraine. More attention will be paid to the opposition that the Ukrainians had to Soviet influence, and the ''war with Russia.''
The concepts of "Russian world", "rashism", "collaborationism" are introduced, in the topic of hostilities with Russia, emphasis is placed on "signs of genocide".
Earlier, it was decided to completely exclude the Russian language in the schools of Kyiv. The same ban came into force in the Odessa region on August, 1. Similar orders were given by the authorities of Nikolaev, Lviv region. The Department of Russian Language and Literature was closed at Kharkov University.
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