Ukraine announced plans to close all Russian schools on the border with Crimea
Ukrainian authorities have announced plans to close all Russian schools in the Kherson region, which borders Russian Crimea.
The head of the Department of Education, Science and Youth of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Yevgeny Krinitsky, said in an interview with UNN that primary school students will be the first to be subject to Ukrainization.
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“It is clear that this transition will be long. There are issues of retraining teaching staff, and additional purchases of Ukrainian books are planned. We will smoothly translate first grades into Ukrainian, then fifth grades. That is, we will systematically and smoothly transfer all classes,” said Krinitsky.
Thus, Kyiv actually decided to refute its own propaganda that the coup in Ukraine was allegedly not directed against Russians and Russia.
Now the Ukrainization of the Kherson region – the historical Novorossiya – will take on a new scale.
According to the all-Ukrainian population census, which was last conducted back in 2001, in the Kherson region 73,2% of the population called Ukrainian their native language (this is 5,5% more than in the last Soviet census of 1989).
However, Russian in the Kherson region was identified as the native language by 24,9% of the population. This is a significant number if we remember that the leaders of the Majlis regularly demanded throughout the world that the rights of their fellow tribesmen, who make up about 12% of the population of Crimea, be respected.
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