In Tatarstan, an active promotion of the topic of the Tatar language in schools has begun - people write refusals from these lessons. Will Tatar language teachers be laid off according to training manuals? Reduction of Tatar language lessons

30.06.2020

The Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan called calls from parents of students to refuse to study contrary to current legislation and “misleading” Tatar language. The wave of parental discontent was partly provoked by the opening speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations in Yoshkar-Ola, where the head of state spoke about the inadmissibility of “forcing a person to teach” non-native language.

STATE AND NATIVE?

In Tatarstan, every parent of a schoolchild knows that studying the Tatar language in local schools is mandatory. Some moms and dads, however, try to resist this.

Kazan lawyer Sergei Khapugin went the furthest in his intention to have his schoolboy son study this subject cancelled. At the beginning of the 2000s, he initiated legal proceedings against the republican Ministry of Education and Science. However, both processes - the first in the Vakhitovsky District Court, and then in the Constitutional Court - the man lost.

After Khapugin, Victoria Mozharova, a resident of Nizhnekamsk, defended the right of her children not to learn the Tatar language. The woman allowed her sons, seventh-graders of Lyceum No. 14, to skip this subject. However, the local prosecutor's office recognized Mozharova's actions as illegal and filed a lawsuit against her.

Until now, there have been no other striking examples in the republic. And everything would have been the same if it weren’t for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Yoshkar-Ola in July at a retreat of the Council on Interethnic Relations.

“The Russian language for us is the natural spiritual framework of our entire multinational country. Everyone should know it...Forcing a person to learn a language that is not his native language is just as unacceptable as reducing the level and time of teaching Russian...,” Putin said then in his opening remarks.

Partly because of this, parents of Tatarstan schoolchildren began to unite in various committees and bombard the Russian Ministry of Education and Science with letters. Today, there are already 2.8 thousand people in the “Committee of Russian-Speaking Parents of Tatarstan” group on VKontakte. Similar groups exist in Zelenodolsk, Bugulma, Elabuga...

By the way, samples of statements (group and individual) about refusal to study the Tatar language are posted in the committee group.

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE EXPLAINS...

It seems that the regional Ministry of Education and Science could no longer ignore or ignore the discontent of citizens. This is evidenced by the “clarification on the issue of teaching the Tatar language in general” published on September 7 educational institutions Republic of Tatarstan".

It is curious that such conclusions in the ministerial “clarification” are made on the basis of the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of November 16, 2004 No. 16-P. "Study in educational institutions Russian and Tatar languages as state languages in the Republic of Tatarstan are recognized as not contradicting the Constitution Russian Federation».

At the same time, the ministry reports that it is taking “measures to improve methods and technologies for teaching the Tatar language.”

No less interesting information is contained in the last paragraph of the “clarification”, where it is stated that the Tatarstan Prime Minister “made a decision to bring, from January 1, 2018, the volume of studying the Russian language to the volume recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.” Whether the regional Ministry of Education and Science thereby recognizes the fact that there is a preponderance in favor of studying the Tatar language remains unsaid. MK-Povolzhye had not yet received a response to its request to the ministerial press service on this matter by the time of publication.

“THIS IS THE AGONY OF THE MINISTRY”

Clarification is the agony of the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan! This is an attempt by a drowning man to grab at a straw,” said Mikhail Shcheglov, chairman of the Society of Russian Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, in a conversation with a MK-Volga Region correspondent.

According to the interlocutor, the “clarification” is an attempt to stop the “tide” of statements from active parents. And a possible relaxation in the form of transferring the subject to the category of electives would instantly reduce the attendance of Tatar lessons by 80%.

Vladimir Putin, as we remember, instructed the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation and Rosobrnadzor to conduct an inspection on the issue of compliance with the right of citizens to voluntarily study languages. And earlier he stated that it was inadmissible to reduce the hours of studying the Russian language. Now heads can roll, because there is a flood of letters from parents of schoolchildren from Tatarstan. This folder with letters was received by Vasilyeva (Olga Vasilyeva, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation - ed.),- says Shcheglov.

According to Shcheglov, the Committee of Russian-Speaking Parents of Tatarstan and the Society of Russian Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan are preparing a similar folder for the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOC) Farit Zakiev believes that the problem with teaching the Tatar language would not have arisen if the Tatar language had initially been recognized as the state language in the Republic of Tatarstan.

If we declared it (Tatar language - edit.) state language exactly 25 years ago, there would have been no problems. This is the task of the same Ministry of Education, the Cabinet of Ministers and the President, the task of the State Council. De jure it is, de facto it is not. The issue will go away on its own and parents themselves will ask for it to be taught well,” says Zakiev.

At the same time, the head of the VTOC recognizes the obvious existence of problems with the quality and methods of teaching this subject in schools in Tatarstan.

Completely random people with a diploma in economics, etc. become Tatar language teachers. In Naberezhnye Chelny I met Tatar language teachers who themselves do not know the language well. Naturally, parents of students have questions in such situations, he adds.

When asked whether there is an advantage in Tatarstan in favor of learning the Tatar language, Zakiev answered vaguely.

I always give a clear example: in Khabarovsk, parents demand that their children be taught Chinese in kindergartens. This absolutely applies to our situation: we, too, can ensure that parents demand that Tatar be taught.

Whether the Tatarstan Prosecutor's Office will find violations in the matter of voluntary learning of the Tatar language will become clear by November 30. According to the press service of the department, the corresponding “assignment” from the Prosecutor General’s Office will only “arrive next week.”

Let us remind you that until the end of November, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and Rosobrnadzor will conduct an inspection on the issue of compliance with the right of citizens to voluntarily study languages from among the languages of the peoples of Russia, as stated in the list of instructions of the President of the Russian Federation following the July meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations.

P.S. Today, the chairman of the regional council of the Labor Party of Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan, Ivan Klimov, sent

Troops from Moscow arrive to extinguish the interethnic fire, and in the Republic of Tatarstan they hint that it has already been decided to reduce the number of Tatar language lessons, but keep it compulsory

Photo: Oleg Tikhonov (at the rally “For the Native Russian Language!”, April 2017)

The conflict around the Tatar language in schools is nearing its end. On October 27, the inspection of the Prosecutor General's Office and Rosobrnadzor ends; the official bodies do not comment on anything until its completion, but hints have already been given that the Tatar language will remain in schools, although the number of lessons may be reduced. The Ministry of Education of Tatarstan gathers the heads of the Russian Academy of Sciences for an unscheduled meeting, and experts on interethnic relations from the Russian Academy of Sciences were brought to the Kazan Kremlin, before the conflict between opponents and supporters of compulsory Tatar in schools went beyond online discussions. Read about whether tomorrow will be the “X” day for Tatar in the material of Realnoe Vremya.

Experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences were invited to extinguish the language fire in Tatarstan

Tomorrow may become the “X” day, which will put an end to discussions about whether or not the Tatar language should be voluntary in schools. There are many events planned for the day dedicated to this theme.

The State Council of Tatarstan is holding a regular session at which the topic of teaching the Tatar language will be raised. This issue is not on the agenda yet, but changes may be made to the agenda at the beginning of the session, and, most likely, deputies will raise this issue. At least, the speaker of the republican legislative assembly Farid Mukhametshin has already hinted about this.

Tomorrow, a specialist in “fighting fires” in the field of interethnic conflicts, the head of the center for the study of interethnic relations at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leokadia Drobizheva, is coming to Kazan. It should be noted that Drobizheva is invited to Kazan in emergency cases. The last time this was the report of sociologists of the Center for the Study of National Conflicts Sergei Starovoytov and Ivan Zhukov, in which Tatarstan was presented in an unflattering light - in the map of the report the republic was designated red as one of the regions of Russia with the most tense situation in interethnic relations. At the end of 2014, at the request of the Tatarstan authorities, the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a conference in Kazan, where it tried to convince the public of the opposite.

As Leokadia Drobizheva told Realnoe Vremya, she was invited to Kazan from the administration of the President of Tatarstan. On October 26, Drobizheva will hold a seminar there “for those who were invited there.”

Drobizheva is invited to Kazan in emergency cases. Photo fadn.gov.ru

Tomorrow, the Ministry of Education of Tatarstan is holding an unscheduled meeting via videoconference with the heads of district and city education departments on “topical issues of education.” The meeting will be held behind closed doors; local management will probably be given instructions on what to tell parents and what to do with the curriculum.

Part of the Moscow landing party arrived in Kazan today. Svetlana Ermakova, Head of the Department for Support of Ethnocultural Specifics and Special Forms of Education of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere general education The Russian Ministry of Education and Science met with colleagues from Rosobrnadzor, who are currently in Tatarstan for an inspection. She was also taken on an excursion to one of the schools.

“We are retreating”: hours for studying Tatar can be reduced, but not canceled

Tatarstan Education Minister Engel Fattakhov met with Russian Education Minister Olga Vasilyeva on Monday. What proposal Fattakhov made to the Moscow boss and what they agreed on remains a mystery. Journalists hang up the phone of the Ministry of Education with questions about when there will be a briefing on the results of the trip, but the press service of the department remains silent.

The veil of secrecy was lifted today by an event at the House of Friendship of Peoples, where representatives of the Ministry of Education of Tatarstan, authorities and the public adopted a resolution in which they recognized the validity of the discontent of part of the Russian-speaking public of the republic.

“The Tatar language is studied as a native language, although it is not one; The volumes of studying the Russian language do not correspond to the volumes recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since 2015. In addition, there are complaints about the quality of teaching the Tatar language, the overload of programs with theoretical material, as well as the insufficient level of use of effective techniques aimed at communication skills. These circumstances became the subject of negative assessments during the inspection of Rosobrnadzor and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in general education organizations republic,” the resolution says.

What proposal Fattakhov made to the Moscow boss and what they agreed on remains a mystery. Photo by Maxim Platonov

From the text of the resolution it follows that the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tajikistan proposed measures to resolve this conflict and the meeting participants decided to support them. “From January 1, 2018, the volume of studying the Russian language will be brought to the level established by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for all types of educational institutions. In grades 10-11, the study of the Tatar language should be transferred to a voluntary basis - according to the appropriate profile of training. To ensure the study of the Tatar language as a compulsory subject - the state language of the Republic of Tatarstan at the levels of primary general and basic general education.”

The resolution also proposed to contact the Russian Ministry of Education with a request to consider the issue of including the subject “state language of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation” in the Federal State Educational Standards and to develop curriculum options that provide for the study of the state language of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

The adoption of the resolution took place closed to the press. As a result, State Council Speaker Rimma Ratnikova called the decision a “compromise.”

Of course, this is a compromise, of course, we are retreating, but this is probably necessary today,” Ratnikova told reporters.

At parent meetings they started talking about reducing the mandatory Tatar hours from the second quarter

It must be taken into account that a resolution is just a proposal and not a final verdict. In any case, the end of the language conflict in schools is close - employees of the departments of Yuri Chaika and Sergei Kravtsov finish work on October 27. Official bodies do not comment on the progress of inspections, and such silence gives rise to many rumors. Conflicting information is being spread through social media groups and school parent chats.

Some say that the number of Tatar language lessons will remain at 3-4 per week: “The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tatarstan has submitted to Russia an option with an increase in Russian and a decrease in Tatar to 3-4 hours, depending on the focus of schools and classes,” writes a source who visited the meeting at the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan.

The decisions of individual school leaders to reduce the Tatar language can so far be explained only by the consequences of prosecutorial inspections in these institutions. Photo mariuver.com

Others say that at a parent meeting they were told that from the second quarter the number of Tatar language hours would be reduced to two per week: “Instead of Tatar, hours in Russian and foreign languages will be added, there will be a lesson on speech culture and rhetoric for Russians in Russian, for Tatars - in the Tatar language,” the reader reported the results of his parent meeting to Realnoe Vremya. Local crypto channels are also actively disseminating information about leaving the Tatar language as a compulsory language, but in an abbreviated form.

The Ministry of Education of Tatarstan states that no decisions have been made yet and cannot be made until the end of the inspection. The decisions of individual school leaders to reduce the Tatar language can only be explained by the consequences of prosecutorial inspections in these institutions, which discovered violations of the Law on Education of the Russian Federation - starting with the fact that parents did not give consent to study the Tatar language, ending with the fact that the Russian language is taught in volumes that do not correspond to the recommended Ministry of Education of Russia.

Instructions from Russian speakers and propaganda leaflets from Tatar speakers: how parents react to conflict

Most schools have taken a break and are in no hurry to make decisions on changing the curriculum. Started this week parent meetings, where moms and dads are given standard application forms and asked to decide on the language that is their native language: “I give my consent to teach in the subject “Native Language and literary reading on native language“... - then the parents write either “Russian” or “Tatar language”. At the same time, the form states that the subject “native language” is compulsory, but taking into account the opinion of the students’ parents.

Activists advocating the voluntary nature of learning the Tatar language believe that they are trying to mislead parents with such statements. “The concept of “native Russian” does not exist at all in the education law. The Russian language is a separate subject, and the native language is one of the languages of the peoples of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Native Russian will be replaced with something else if you sign this application,” says the mailing instructions on how to behave at a meeting in schools, distributed in WhatsApp chats.

On October 24, an administrative lawsuit was filed in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in defense of the compulsory study of the Tatar language from one of the schools in Naberezhnye Chelny to the Russian Ministry of Education. Photo by Maxim Platonov

Daria Turtseva

In recent months, Tatarstan has been losing what little it had that distinguished it from other Russian regions. In 2017, Moscow did not renew the agreement on the division of powers with Kazan, which gave Tatarstan a certain autonomy. Local schools are in full swing school year compulsory teaching of the Tatar language was abolished. Previously, it was taught on the same basis as Russian, but now only two optional hours per week are left. Pavel Shmakov, director of the SolNTse boarding school for intellectually enthusiastic children from Kazan, was outraged by the speed of this decision and the violations with which, in his opinion, it was made and went to court. DW spoke with Shmakov about why he advocates reducing the number of Tatar language lessons, but is against making it optional.

DW: On March 1 there will be another court hearing in your case in the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan. Why are you fighting for the Tatar language in schools?

Pavel Shmakov: The whole story began, as you know, at the end of July 2017, when Putin said in Yoshkar-Ola that people should not be forced to learn a non-native language. Then, at the beginning of October, we unexpectedly received a letter from the prosecutor’s office saying that we had been inspected and our curriculum analyzed. No checks were actually carried out. A few days later, a meeting of school directors in our district took place; such meetings were held in all districts of Kazan in the presence of district prosecutors. It was conducted by the heads of the Kazan education department. I asked how and why we received inspection papers, although there were none.

At these meetings we were ordered to begin dismissing Tatar teachers. Within two months we were obliged to fire teachers. After that, prosecutors began to come to us with real checks. They began to interrogate the children why they needed Tatar, why they were learning it.

-... And you filed a protest.

I thought the position was wrong. There were obvious violations: interrogations of children in the absence of parents, prosecutors entered the boarding school without permission, photographed personal belongings of children; such actions according to the Constitution are allowed only with court approval. I filed a lawsuit against the prosecutor's office.

I believe that such actions (reducing Tatar lessons - Ed.) cannot be done quickly. In principle, they can be done, curricula sometimes change, this is normal. But such actions are done during big summer holidays. Several court hearings have already taken place, several judges have changed, they do not want to resolve these issues, they are postponing them to a later time. The matter is dragging on. Putin asked not to force people to learn a non-native language. But we have several hours of English a week, and they are required to be studied.

In the end, curricula and recommendations were adopted so that Tatar was taught only voluntarily and for no more than two hours a week. Putin’s phrase is contradictory, and it does not say in what time frame this must be done. And interethnic tensions are quickly escalating in our country. I have lived here since birth, my dad and my grandfather lived here. There were no particular interethnic conflicts. There was tension only in the early 1990s. And then it calmed down. And now they are dividing again: you are a Tatar, and you are a Russian. You will choose Tatar, but you will not. I remembered that when I was a schoolboy, there was a funny, but not very good situation: the Russians were playing football, and the Tatars were going to learn Tatar. But it wasn't tough yet. It just wasn't quite right. And now it started to get rough.

- Your position is to reduce the teaching of Tatar, but not in a hurry?

Do everything slowly as possible. By February, we increased the number of Russian language hours, since we had fewer of them than we should have according to the law. Another thing is that Tatar teachers are not to blame for this. And the prosecutor's office and Rosobrnadzor, who should monitor this.

I think that the issue will be postponed again until March 18, before the Russian presidential elections. The most important result of the courts is that we will be able to convince children to voluntarily learn Tatar. This took time. And in other schools this was done humiliatingly for the Tatars: they fired many Tatar teachers, set the Tatars against the Russians, and the Russians against the Tatars.

- The authorities' decision has many supporters. Tatarsky, they say, was forced to study whether the student wanted it or not. What would you answer to these people?

What I tell my parents. There are no interethnic complaints or conflicts at our school. We have changed the methodology of teaching Tatar. We don't have homework. We show a lot of films and cartoons in Tatar, children go to museums, Tatar singers and scientists are invited. The Tatar language is taught as a pleasure for children. We have reduced the amount of Tatar, but made sure that there are no statements from parents. I believe that on the land of Tatarstan - this is the only place where there is a homeland of the Tatars - everyone should study the Tatar language for a certain number of hours. Another thing is that you can discuss how many hours, and maybe less than it was. We need other methods: we used to teach grammar and letters. This is wrong: when there are a lot of Russians and Tatars nearby, you just need to talk, sing songs, dance, listen to beautiful Tatar music, and so on. Then it will be natural, pleasant and beautiful. First of all, respect each other. If this culture is not respected, then interethnic conflicts are possible. This is much worse than controversy.

- But from a pragmatic point of view, the authorities’ decision is logical - Tatar is not required for work or for studying at universities, right?

Context

I agree with it. Therefore, when in the fifth grade they study five hours of Tatar, then, in general, this is a lot. Normal would be three or two. A person who is going to leave for Tver or Moscow does not really need the Tatar language. ...We have many interethnic marriages. Every year we go on hiking trips to Tatar villages. Everyone who lives in these parts needs a certain minimum level of language knowledge. Does everyone need math? For a philologist or historian - to a minimal extent, but necessary. There is a certain cultural minimum. On the territory of Tatarstan it is the Tatar language.

- But two hours is allowed. Is this less than the minimum you talked about?

Two hours would be fine if they were mandatory. And they are voluntary. After all, mathematics is not voluntary for us. And English, and geography, and history too. At our school, we resolved the issue: we have two hours, by decision of the parents, they became mandatory for everyone, although formally the lessons are voluntary. In addition, we have many Tatar clubs, so we have not reduced the workload of Tatar teachers. We will reduce it a little in the summer, when we can slowly change our curriculum. Removing it completely from the mandatory grid is fundamentally wrong. Many Tatars will then stop teaching him, because pragmatically he is not very needed. The culture of the Tatar people will be destroyed.

Another small example. In Tatarstan, the Tatar language was studied more, and Russian less, than in Russia. However, out of 88 regions, Tatarstan is in third place in terms of the level of the final exam in the Russian language. Bilingualism is important. When children learned both Tatar and Russian, they knew Russian better.

- In February there was a rally against the abolition of teaching Tatar. You were also present at it. But few people came. Does this mean that the topic is not very relevant for residents of Tatarstan?

I was the only Russian there. There were about 120 people. The rally was announced many times, but this was the first time it was allowed. I was wearing a jacket, jacket, T-shirt, shirt. And within half an hour I was freezing. It was simply cold standing at the rally. When spring comes, more people will come to such rallies.

- At this rally there was a slogan calling on the Russian authorities to ratify the European Charter for Regional Languages. Do you think the current decision to reduce Tatar language lessons is somehow related to the fact that Russia has not yet done this?

I think it's related. It seems to me that Russia is trying to follow its own path of building a rigid pyramid of power. But in such a huge state, such a rigid pyramid does not work well. Saltykov-Shchedrin has this phrase: “The severity of Russian laws is softened by the optionality of their implementation.” It seems to me that Russia is trying to do something that is impossible in this situation. This decision regarding languages leads to a decrease in the diversity of cultures in Russia. After a while everything will return, everything will change. But “some time” can take years and decades.

It is noted that parents of fourth-grade students made this request to the director of the educational institution and replace Tatar language lessons with mathematics, Russian or computer science.

The parents did not expect their request to be approved. " We expected to receive a standard reply: they say that the state languages in Tatarstan are studied in equal volumes. But the director surprised us. She promised to reconsider syllabus", said one of the parents.

However, the parents of the students are in no hurry to rejoice, since the director only invited parents to review the curriculum.

Earlier, Inkazan reported that Rosobrnadzor voluntarily made the study of the Tatar language in educational institutions of the republic on behalf of the Prosecutor General's Office. Its results must be submitted by November 30, 2017. The instruction following the results of the Council on Interethnic Relations, which was held in July, was given by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

In general, at open debates, parents of schoolchildren whose native language is Russian proposed making the study of Tatar not mandatory, as it is now, but voluntary. In their speeches, they referred to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the decision of the government of Bashkiria, which abolished the compulsory teaching of the national language in educational institutions neighboring republic. Their opponents stated that studying the national language in schools helps preserve the cultural identity of the people.

Chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center Farit Zakiev stated that in Russia the number of Tatars speaking their native language has decreased. According to him, it is necessary to “ensure that Russian parents demand Tatar education for their children.” He also proposed introducing bilingual exams for admission to the civil service in the republic and increasing the salaries of those who speak Tatar by 25%.

Let us remind you that 68% of Tatars and 80% of Russians agreed with the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who stated that “forcing a person to learn a language that is not his native language is just as unacceptable as reducing the level and time of teaching Russian in schools national republics RF." The publication presented the results of a study commissioned by Business Online in the summer of 2017.

State Advisor of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev at the beginning of August, he expressed the opinion that the media had made “a futile fuss” about Putin’s statement. "He was concerned about the deterioration of teaching the state language - Russian. Yesterday I watched on TV, a delegate from Romania said that we need to try to speak the Tatar language in the family. This is the basis! Everything depends on ourselves. We know, if we take it, we will do it. From us our future depends,” Shaimiev said on August 3.

Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov During the plenary session of the VI Congress of the World Congress of Tatars in early August, he stated that the Russian authorities need to preserve the Tatar language and traditions. According to Minnikhanov, the best option would be to reflect pressing issues in the new law on state national policy, work on which is currently underway.

Earlier, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan also issued an official statement regarding calls to abolish the compulsory study of the Tatar language in schools of the Republic of Tatarstan. The ministry noted that, based on Article 68 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the republics that are part of Russia can independently establish national languages for your region.

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Calls to refuse to study the Tatar language are contrary to the law, the ministry believes

The Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan called calls by parents of students to refuse to study the Tatar language contrary to current legislation and “misleading.” The wave of parental discontent was partly provoked by the opening speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations in Yoshkar-Ola, where the head of state spoke about the inadmissibility of “forcing a person to learn” a non-native language.

State and native?

In Tatarstan, every parent of a schoolchild knows that studying the Tatar language in local schools is mandatory. Some moms and dads, however, try to resist this.

Until now, there have been no other striking examples in the republic. And everything would have been the same if not for the July speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Yoshkar-Ola at an off-site meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations.

By the way, samples of statements (group and individual) about refusal to study the Tatar language are posted in the committee group.

The Ministry of Education and Science explains...

It seems that the regional Ministry of Education and Science could no longer ignore or ignore the discontent of citizens. This is evidenced by the “clarification on the issue of teaching the Tatar language in educational institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan” published on September 7.

It is curious that such conclusions in the ministerial “clarification” are made on the basis of the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of November 16, 2004 No. 16-P. “The study of Russian and Tatar languages in general educational institutions as state languages in the Republic of Tatarstan is recognized as not contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation.”