Russia to downgrade school syllabus in occupied Crimea, remove English

Lyudmyla Denisova, the authorised Human Rights representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, informs about this.

The Russian occupants are planning to exclude English from the schooling system, calling it “dangerous for children”.

“Instead of English, the language of a lot of ‘unfriendly countries’, they propose to deepen the studying of their ‘native’ languages. In this example - Russian. Studying Ukrainian or Crimean Tatar languages is forbidden.

To form a Russian way of thinking for the children, they are using propaganda in the educational process. The schools regularly have agitational events, in which the children are taught about the ‘heroic deeds’ of the Russian occupants and the animalism of the ‘Ukrainian nationalists’”

As well as that, the schools plan to introduce the primary military training subject.

Denisova states that with these actions, according to Article 50 of the Geneva Convention about defence of Human Rights during war, Russia is committing a felony against the people of Crimea. She calls UN to account for these facts of war crimes and violation of children rights in Ukraine.