The State Duma named Ukraine the leader in de-Russification in the CIS
Ukraine ranks first among the CIS countries in terms of the rate of closure of Russian schools, said the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky at the opening of the World Russian People's Council in Moscow.
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“On the eve of the collapse of the USSR, 350 million people on the planet spoke Russian, and today only 270. In many former republics of the Soviet Union, Russian schools are being closed; the sad “palm” in this matter, as you might guess, belongs to Ukraine.
If this continues, we will be replaced (primarily in the CIS) by a generation of people who speak Russian poorly or not at all. And then all our great integration projects will be like the Tower of Babel.
Today it is very important to support the Russian language as the cementing basis of that global community, which is commonly called the “Russian World”: to open Russian schools - such as the Chekhov school in Bishkek, to hold festivals of Russian culture, to expand Russian-language broadcasting abroad. The task is complex, costly, but doable,” says Slutsky.
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