Education Minister Comments on Construction of Kazakh Schools in Russia

Minister of Education Gani Beisembayev was asked about constructing Kazakh schools in the Astrakhan region, Tomsk, and Orenburg, Orda.kz reports.

A Russian news source previously reported that the Tomsk authorities refused to build a Kazakh school due to a “lack of demand from the population.”

These regions are being studied. This is a whole negotiating process. The cities have already been roughly determined. The next stage is to determine the location. When cities are selected, more emphasis is placed on those places where there are more of our Kazakh brothers. We need to look at the documents. Work in this direction is underway, said Gani Beisembayev at a government meeting.

Journalists asked him whether he thought that the Russian side was not particularly interested in building Kazakh schools. 

I haven't noticed anything like this he answered.

At the end of November, Gani Beisembayev spoke about Kazakh-language schools possibly being constructed in Russian regions with large Kazakh diasporas.

Original Author: Zhadra Zhulmukhametova