Pupils and students from Ukraine will be able to choose the language in which you will receive an education.

On Tuesday told local Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Tabachnik.

“We are now creating a working group to examine the most sensitive issues of education, including language classes. The basic principle to be laid, - the parents of pupils at the school and students at universities should have the right to choose which language to learn. They should make the application, and they must be satisfied, “- said Tabachnik.

According to him, so the Government does not intend to Russify education, but tries to meet the basic human rights. “You can not forcibly deprive citizens of the country, in the case of Ukraine - the vast majority of citizens,
the right to receive education in their native language “, - stressed the Minister.

However, Tabachnik said that the Ministry’s decision does not exempt citizens from the duty of studying the Ukrainian language, recalling that even in the Soviet Ukrainian school, this language was required to study: “If, according to our nationalists, the USSR was” a terrible Russification ” , then let them give the Russian language in Ukraine, the same law, which had Ukrainian in the USSR “.

A separate issue, he said, would be the situation in Kiev, where much of the population of the Russian language is native, but the city has a total of six schools in which it is taught, and in nursery schools and universities speak only Ukrainian, RIA News.

“In April I want to collect all 500 in the Ministry of Directors of the Kiev school and ask them how they will meet Ukrainian legislation to the requirements of parents to choose their language of instruction for children. As for universities, then as they get more autonomy, so they be able to more flexibly define and language learning “- said Tabachnik.

Recall that in recent years, especially during the five years of his presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, Russian has become the country almost entirely neo

24 March 2010

The situation in Ukraine is close to the Greek
Stolen database Ukrainian Interpol Bureau

More reading: • In Europe, opposed the government of the Russian language in Ukraine. »»»
The Venice Commission considered the draft law “On Language” and... • The struggle for the Russian language in Ukraine. »»»
In Odessa, began collecting signatures under an appeal to the... • Activists of the Young Russia “picket the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow with the requirements to recognize the Russian language. »»»
The youth movement “Young Russia” on Sunday, the day of... • Les élèves et étudiants de l’Ukraine seront en mesure de choisir la langue dans laquelle vous allez recevoir une éducation. »»»
Le mardi a dit le ministre local de l’éducation et... • Ministry of Education encourages students to learn vocabulary prison. »»»
At the end of autumn holidays Crimea students receive new...