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YOUTH LEAGUE DEMANDS TO MAKE RUSSIAN A SECOND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Chisinau. Making Russian a second official language in Moldova should help avoid discrimination of non-title ethnic groups in the republic, presumes Chairman of the Russian Youth League in Moldova Igor Tulyantsev.
At a news conference in Infotag today he said that a roundtable conference was held in Chisinau last Sunday on Russian language functioning in Moldova.
“The conference adopted a resolution that contained a demand to make Russian a second official language in Moldova, to increase the number of Russian language lessons at schools and other educational institutions, and to improve the methodology of teaching Russian”, said Igor Tulyantsev.
“In the draft Education Code, the possibility of receiving medical, military and legal higher education in Russian has been restricted, so Russian-speakers are going to be discriminated in the education sphere. Every coming year, the number of Russian groups in universities is reduced. The number of Russian language lessons at schools is diminishing, too. As a result, a generation is growing in Moldova that will be unable to speak Russian at all – a language that unites millions of people around the world”, said Igor Tulyantsev.
The leader of the Russian youth movement Nashi [Ours], Nikita Borovikov, said Russia and Moldova have centuries-long cultural, historic and political relations that serve a basis for cooperation and joint development.
“As for NATO and the European Union, they can offer Moldova only participation in military conflicts”, Borovikov said.
