Nothing will prevent the adoption of the Russian language teaching concept. President of RA

The development of the controversial concept of Russian language teaching in Armenia has nothing to do with the country’s membership in the EAEU. RA President Serzh Sargsyan said this in an interview to “Российская газета”.

“It is not related to membership, because Russian has always been treated well in Armenia and it has always been widespread. The economies of Armenia and Russia are connected by a thousand threads, we have very close humanitarian cooperation and knowledge of the language is simply necessary. In Armenia, the teaching of Russian begins in the second grade,” said Serzh Sargsyan, adding that

He noted that there are classes in which the entire educational process is conducted in Russian. Today, the necessary steps are being taken so that the traditions of teaching and spreading the Russian language will be preserved even in the case of the new generation.

“Special attention is paid to the fact that students fully master not only their mother tongue, but also 2-3 foreign languages, including Russian. Therefore, such concepts were developed not only for teaching Russian, but also for teaching other foreign languages,” he said.

According to the RA president, the main emphasis should be placed on the quality of Russian language teaching. Armenia has always been distinguished by its school of Russian language specialists, but Russian, like all languages ​​in general, is a living organism and is constantly developing. Therefore, the president emphasized, efforts should be made to be aware of these changes, apply new teaching methods, often organize appropriate seminars and discussions, both in Armenia and in Russia.

“Nothing will prevent the adoption of this concept. I think it’s a matter of a few months. With the adoption of the concept, no drastic changes will be made, because, I repeat, there has always been a friendly attitude towards Russian in Armenia,” Serzh Sargsyan emphasized.

To remind, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia has presented the “concept of Russian language teaching in educational institutions implementing public education programs of the Republic of Armenia”, which is planned to carry out in-depth teaching of the Russian language in one or another subject area. We are talking about the teaching of some topics from a number of subjects in parallel with Armenian, especially in high school. In response to the uproar, the Ministry of Internal Affairs urges the issue not to be politicized and notes that the same changes apply to other languages ​​as well.