Moscow to abolish teaching of Ukrainian language in occupied regions
This is due to the "changing geopolitical situation in the world," the daily said, citing an Education Ministry draft curriculum.
Among the reasons given by Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, was the alleged suppression of the Russian language in Ukraine. He pledged that Russia would behave differently and would protect the use of Ukrainian.
Until now, Ukrainian has been an obligatory subject in schools in those parts of the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions occupied by Russian forces.
It has been an optional subject in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and in Crimea. The same goes for Bashkortostan in southern Russia.
The new curriculum does not provide for the teaching of Ukrainian at all.
Attempts by US President Donald Trump to launch talks to end the war have stalled, with Moscow rejecting a ceasefire along the current front line.
At the recent St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin described Russians and Ukrainians as a single people, saying that Ukraine as a whole belonged to Russia.
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