INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukrainian territories, Ukrainian language lessons have been made available upon request by parents
In the 2023-2024 school year, these lessons were requested in annexed Crimea, the partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the
republic of Bashkortostan.Currently, students in regions where Ukrainian is taught study the language for a total of 736 hours from
elementary through high school.The draft order also excludes Ukrainian literature as a subject from first through ninth grades, where it had
accounted for 282 hours of instruction
eradicate the Ukrainian language in captured territories are demanding respect for the Russian language in territories which they are unable
of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has been accused of carrying out a mass campaign to erase Ukrainian identity and culture on the lands it has
forcibly imposing the Russian language on people in the occupied regions, saying that language policy should be "gentle and natural."In the
first year of the invasion, Putin cautioned officials against any attempts to ban the Ukrainian language, noting that some 3 million
new literature textbook for Russian schools reportedly omitted references related to Ukraine, including information about the writer Nikolai
