In Estonia, the authorities will stop funding Russian-speaking schools and kindergartens from 2035, Baltic Prime Minister Kaya Kallas said in the program` `Unusual Look & # 39; & # 39; on Radio 4.
It is clarified that these institutions will not receive funds from the state or local governments.
According to Callas, such measures are not an attempt to oppress the Russian community or stop reckoning with it. “ No one wants to do anything by force, the issues have to be taken into account, besides, no one wants to make children 100% Estonian. Knowledge of their roots, their mother tongue & ndash; all this will remain & raquo ;, & ndash; commented the Prime Minister.
She added that the relevant ministry was developing education reform when led by Mailis Reps, representing the Center Party, which defends the interests of the Russian-speaking population. According to the Estonian Language Development Program she developed, all residents of the country should master this language and value knowledge of other languages, while the transition to predominantly Estonian education is underway . This means that in state and local funded schools and kindergartens, lessons are taught in Estonian.
There are 74 secondary schools in different parts of Estonia, where you can get an education in Russian, but the number is gradually decreasing, TASS specifies.