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Armenian service of Radio Liberty – Azatutyun writes that Armenia education the minister still does not know the answer to the question of whether Russian schools will be opened in the country.
The minister who answered Azatutyu’s question about this Janna Andreasyan said that Russia Two possible ideas about this have been presented.
One of them is the model of Sino-Armenian schools. In these schools, the main subjects are taught in the Armenian language.
According to the minister, the second offer to Armenia since the start of the war in Ukraine Russia related to the flow of citizens:
“We asked them if there is a need to organize distribution for these citizens?” It was also meant here that these people are in Russian schools education so they can buy it.”
Azatutyun writes that last December Armenia–Russia after the meeting of the intergovernmental commission, a decision was made to create a working group on this problem.
But a few days before that, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov Armenian colleague Ararat Mirzoyanla in Moscow at the joint press conference he thanked him for Armenia’s caring approach to the Russian language.
He also said that work is underway to increase the number of Russian schools in Armenia:
“We discussed the entire spectrum of our relations, all issues. We discussed mutual cultural influences, the opening of new Russian schools, the exchange of textbooks and cultural materials. We agreed on strengthening efforts to open new Russian schools in Armenia this year…”
Azatutyun writes that neither Russia nor Armenia side does not explain what these “efforts” are.
of Armenia education the minister could not answer this question either. The minister only said that if an agreement is reached, a new one school buildings will be built.
The official language of education in Armenia is Armenian. In Armenian schools, the teaching of the Russian language is considered compulsory from the 2nd grade. Other foreign languages are passed from the 3rd grade.
This too news it is given that “in-depth” teaching of the Russian language is applied in 63 secondary schools of Armenia.
45 schools have Russian language classes.
Foreign language schools in Armenia 20It is regulated by the “Education Law” adopted in 2009.
According to this law, the number of foreign-language state educational institutions in the country is 11.
Thats it law It shows the maximum number of foreign language education organizations in Armenia as 4. This means that the total number of Russian schools in the country cannot be more than that.
There are three currently teaching Russian in Armenia school there is