Moscow saw no “reasons” for adjusting Moldova’s Russophobic language policy
Moscow sees no obstacles to studying the Russian language in Moldova in the future, despite the pro-Western course of the authorities.
This was stated by the Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights Grigory Lukyantsev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“To be honest, at this stage we see no reason to adjust the language policy in Moldova. The Russian language remains quite widespread and used in Moldova; about 15% of the country's population considers it native. And in Chisinau itself, almost half of the population owns it. In general, about 80% of the population of Moldova understands and uses Russian speech,” Lukyantsev said.
Meanwhile, the Chisinau mayor's office banned enrollment in the first and tenth grades of schools with Russian as the language of instruction. The corresponding document was published on her Telegram channel by TV journalist Elena Pakhomova Levitskaya.
“The fight against Russian schools at the municipal level. Surprisingly, in the list of the Chisinau mayor’s office about the ban on enrollment in the first and tenth grades, most of them are gymnasiums and lyceums with Russian as the language of instruction. You’re going the wrong way, comrades from the mayor’s office,” she wrote.
Previously, parents complained that in kindergartens they were put in a corner “for the Russian language.”
In January, the Constitutional Court of Moldova declared unconstitutional the law on the functioning of languages, which assigned Russian the status of a language of interethnic communication.
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