Chechen Education Ministry Denies Reduction in School Language Hours

The total amount of Chechen language instruction in schools will not change, said the First Deputy Minister of Education of Chechnya, Orda.kz reports, citing The Caucasusin Knot.

He had stated that teaching of the Chechen language would be reduced from five hours per week to one.

Today, the Chechen Ministry of Education and Science denied information about the reduction of hours allocated to the Chechen language in schools. The First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the republic, Ilyas Taaev, stated that “the volume of Chechen language teaching in schools will not be reduced.”