Russians ban Ukrainian language and literature in schools in temporarily occupied territories

The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation has excluded Ukrainian language and literature from the school curriculum in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called this decision a genocidal policy of Moscow.

The teaching of Ukrainian language and literature will cease in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation has published a draft order on changing the federal program for schools. The document excludes the subject “Native (Ukrainian) language” from the school curriculum.

The Russian agency also proposes to stop studying Ukrainian literature from grades 1 to 9 in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

These changes are being made “in connection with the changed geopolitical situation in the world.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reacted to the Russian decision: “We consider the decision of the Russian authorities to ban the study of the Ukrainian language in schools in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as another manifestation of Moscow’s genocidal policy.”