The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note to the Turkmen Foreign Ministry asking it to clarify the situation with the disbanding of Russian classes in schools in Ashgabat, a comment issued on Tuesday by the Russian Foreign Ministry reads.
Classes with teaching in Russian were closed in a number of schools in Ashgabat on the eve of the new school year "due to the need to comply with sanitary and hygienic standards". The Ministry noted that the Russian Embassy had not yet received a response to its request to clarify the situation.
"In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry sent a note to the MFA of Turkmenistan with the request to clarify the situation in order to restore Russian-language classes that would meet the provisions of the Treaty on friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan dated April 23, 2002, on the promotion of the study of the Russian language in Turkmenistan and the Turkmen language in the Russian Federation", - the message reads.
The Ministry also expressed hope that Turkmenistan, in the spirit of traditionally friendly relations between the two countries, would not allow the reduction of education in Russian in the country.
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Source: TASS