In Tatarstan, was “forced labor” in Tatar exchanged for personal security?

Today's meeting of the State Council of Tatarstan the day before in the local media was announced as historic: the parliament was to make a final decision on the compulsory teaching of the Tatar language in the schools of the republic. As a result, the issue of language "coercion" was put on the agenda as the first item. But, contrary to expectations, the discussion was extremely casual - quickly and without debate. The issue was considered for less than 15 minutes, after which they quickly moved on to discussing the budget for 2018.

The prosecutor of Tatarstan acted as the main (and only) speaker Ildus Nafikov, who read from the podium dry in style, but devastating in content, a five-minute report. “The absolute priority is to ensure the implementation of the constitutional rights of citizens,” Nafikov recalled. - A decrease in the volume of teaching the Russian language in the schools of the republic has been recorded. The norms were observed only in 24 schools. Also, there was a violation of the rights and freedoms to voluntary study of the Tatar language with the imposition of final tests that affect both the transfer to the 10th grade and the average mark of the certificate. The intervention of republican and municipal bodies in the autonomy of educational institutions is noted. The totality of these violations not only violated educational standards, but also negatively affected the provision of freedom of movement and choice of residence by citizens within the Russian Federation.”

In total, according to Nafikov, during the inspection of all 1412 schools of the republic, the prosecutor's office and Rosobrnadzor recorded 3856 violations. All of the nearly 4,000 cases concerned what the Russian president had previously warned about - depriving Russian-speaking citizens of Russia of their constitutional rights to freedom to choose Russian as their mother tongue and impose Tatar as their compulsory language. As a result, a high decline in the volume of learning the Russian language, the state language of the Russian Federation, was revealed in Tatarstan.

Ildus Nafikov said that since the beginning of the check ( mid-October - EADaily) the prosecutor's office received 1716 complaints about the facts of "obligation" in schools to the detriment of Russian. “All of them are checked and allowed. The voluntariness of the study of the native language has been ensured where the curricula provide for its teaching. The prosecutor thanked the teachers who, during the check, promptly signaled to the prosecutor's office and Rosobrnadzor about language distortions in the educational process, about forceful pressure on teachers, students and parents, when Moscow "took up the language." “In difficult conditions, you reacted according to the state, wisely and correctly. They did not allow the incitement of discord, they ensured the continuity of the education process.

Nafikov, outlining the situation with the Russian language in Tatarstan, made the main emphasis on the word "strife" - a synonym for the concept of "extremism" ( Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - approx. EADaily). “I must warn hotheads against illegal actions and statements of an extremist nature. They will be severely and resolutely suppressed, no matter who comes from. The prosecutor's office is against inciting passions and conflict situations.

In social networks, they have already noted the striking similarity of the intonation with which Nafikov promised punishment to “linguistic extremists” with the intonation Vladimir Putin when in 1999 he predicted death in a latrine for terrorists. From this, people's observers concluded: Nafikov spoke in parliament not on his own behalf, but on behalf of the President of Russia. Which is logical - according to the Constitution of Russia, the prosecutor of Tatarstan is accountable to the Moscow Kremlin, and not to Kazan. Yes, and Nafikov was appointed prosecutor in 2013 by Vladimir Putin, and not Rustam Minnikhanov.

From the dry tone of the prosecutor in the republic, they made the right conclusion: Moscow took the language problem in Tatarstan seriously and, as they say, will punish, regardless of the status, position, ratings of United Russia and other attributes of the federal "table of ranks".

The reaction of the audience in the State Council to Nafikov's speech is indicative. State Councilor sitting in the State Council Hall Mintimer Shaimiev mournfully silent. Although usually the ex-president of Tatarstan, when it comes to the attributes of "Tatar sovereignty", he does not skimp on emotions. From this, the observers concluded that Shaimiev himself, most likely, decided not to go on the rampage and warned other members of the "old guard" against this. Which, in particular, includes the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov(former Minister of Finance under Shaimiev) and the current Minister of Education of Tatarstan (mechanical engineer by profession) Engel Fattakhov. Judging by the fact that Engel Navapovich also did not react to the prosecutor's report, he correctly assessed Shaimiev's silence.

True, he heard Moscow's warning expressed by Nafikov and another "veteran" - the speaker of the State Council Farit Mukhametshin. He addressed the deputies with a warning "not to politicize the problem." Politicization is another key word of the "language" meeting of the State Council, a kind of bogey. Although the long-term imposition of the Tatar language on schoolchildren in multinational Tatarstan can only be called nationalism, and can only be explained by the nationalist whims of the leadership. Tatar language to the detriment of Russian is a symbol of Tatarstan as a "sovereign state". Otherwise, the "fathers of sovereignty" since the early nineties nurtured "sovereignty" with only one goal - to secure the status of lifelong masters of Tatarstan, along with all the consequences - legal immunity and the ability to bargain with Moscow.

“The threat of the death of the Tatar language” due to Russification, assimilation, globalization ... as well as other far-fetched theses of nationalists in the leadership of Tatarstan are nothing more than pathos. A significant part of the deputies of the State Council has long been aware of the nuances "on the language issue." Most likely, this is precisely why the deputies preferred not to argue with how Moscow assessed the linguistic “well-being” of Tatarstan, but to approve what Moscow proposed in the person of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. According to Nafikov's statement, from now on the Tatar language can be studied in the region "only voluntarily, on the basis of the written consent of parents or legal representatives of students within two hours a week at the expense of the part formed by the participants in educational relations."

True, the speaker Mukhametshin did not do without a remark. According to him, the issue of studying the Tatar language in the schools of the republic "is of great concern to the public", and the deputies received many applications from "caring citizens." From whom exactly, to which deputies, and what was said in these appeals, Mukhametshin did not say. He also said: “The Ministry of Education and Science has a lot of work to do to adopt curricula in schools with the inclusion of the Tatar language in the amount of 2 hours. A set of measures is needed, including changes in the work programs for the Tatar language, updating Tatar literature, methodological documents, advanced training and retraining of personnel.”

It should be noted that since 2012, the school of each constituent entity of the Russian Federation, together with the parents of students, chooses a training plan from several offered by the federal state educational standard and the federal law “On Education”. In the case of Tatarstan (as with any national region), school directorates and parents have the right to choose for themselves both the notorious “regional component” and the general federal plan - without hours for the national language, but with an emphasis on Russian, literature and one European language. However, Farit Mukhametshin, as before, was silent about such nuances, and now he did not report it. As well as the fact that the mentioned “volume of 2 hours” becomes voluntary.

The capitulation of the ethnocracy was amusing to watch from the sidelines. Before Ildus Nafikov's report, the State Council in the republic was still trying to create the illusion of a protest wave with the help of administrative resources. Previously, in the image of man-made protection of "linguistic sovereignty" there was a conditional "teacher of the national language", who was left without a job. When this resource had exhausted itself, the ethnocrats covered themselves with Russian teachers appointed to the role of "selfless defenders" of the Tatar language to the detriment of the Russian language. The director of a specialized lyceum in Kazan was at the forefront of the anti-federal pedagogical front Pavel Shmakov- "Russian and Finnish teacher" (in 2000, Shmakov left for permanent residence in Finland, but in 2011 he returned to Kazan - ed.) EADaily ), an "icon" of liberal-oriented parents of Kazan schoolchildren. The Idel.Realii portal associated with Radio Liberty willingly quoted Shmakov, who stood up for “protection of cultural diversity”, who in the mind of the teacher-director was transformed in defense of language “coercion”: “We believe that it is impossible to divide children into Tatars and Russians, that the Tatars go to their Tatar, and the Russians go to play football. According to Shmakov, all schoolchildren should learn Tatar, and this will be the case at his school in the Sun.

Shmakov compared prosecutorial checks with walking in soldier's boots on delicate flowers. Prosecutor's checks outraged the teacher, who, in his desire to punish martinet inspectors, agreed to the point of absurdity: "They photographed children's underwear, personal items ...". But Shmakov's over-emotional and confused video interview had an impact only on people who were completely unaware of the realities of Tatarstan. And the fact that the vertical of the republic, listening to Nafikov, saluted, only confirms the well-known expression “one’s own shirt is closer to the body”: frightened ethnocrats, in order to maintain personal safety, quickly “surrendered” their native Tatar language, on which only yesterday they insisted on compulsory education whether not foaming at the mouth.

Note that in the same way - for the sake of "preserving everything acquired by overwork" (for 27 years of ethnocracy), the notorious agreement on the delimitation of powers between the federal center and the republic was quietly handed over, at the beginning of this year a whole cohort of previously "inviolable" national- activists. The centenarians of the high offices of Kazan, for the sake of peace and well-being, turned out to be ready to show a “multi-vector approach”, turning from defenders of the “State of Tatarstan” into “patriots of Russia”. Against this background, in the republic, in competent circles, opinions are sounding more and more clearly that Rustam Minnikhanov will not see out his term in the presidency of Tatarstan, and the “old guard” will still have to answer to Russian justice for all past ethnocratic “pranks”.

These opinions are partly supported by the early calculations of some Moscow experts. According to them, only the status of Tatarstan as a “super prosperous” region and the absence of conflicts saved the resignation of President Rustam Minnikhanov before. The illusion of "super prosperity" burst at the beginning of 2017, along with the collapse of the "empire" of Tatfondbank. And Kazan's desire to follow the old ethnocratic course at all costs led to Vladimir Putin's speech in Yoshkar-Ola and complex "language" tests in the schools of the region. According to the results of these checks, resignation is the simplest punishment that can be expected of the highest officials of the republic.

In Tatarstan (Russia), they do not stop discussing the possibility of abolishing the compulsory study of the Tatar language at school. Someone is “for”, someone is “against”, there are a lot of arguments from both sides. Idel.Realii decided to collect answers from various Russian ministries and departments and tried to answer the most important questions of parents from the position of the authorities.

"Are there many people in Tatarstan who don't want their children to learn Tatar?"

An organization set up in April 2017, the Committee of Russian-Speaking Parents of Tataria, said that as of October 10, at least 2,805 applications had been submitted in Tatarstan to refuse to study the Tatar language. If you believe the map they provided, basically, they are ready to give up learning the language in cities in the east, in Kazan and areas near Kazan.

"Only Russians submit such applications?"

No, there are also ethnic Tatars among them. The reluctance to study Tatar at school is usually caused not by national hostility, but by the poor level of teaching the language, the lack of need to study it and the desire to improve the level of learning Russian, since this language is necessary for admission to universities.

"I heard that the study of Tatar has already been canceled somewhere"

News about this, indeed, constantly appear. One of the first stories is connected with the Naberezhnye Chelny journalist Alsu Gazizova. In early September 2017, she wrote a statement. The teacher allowed her son Mark not to attend Tatar lessons. Instead, the boy was offered something to do during this time, for example, drawing. A few days later, Gazizova was summoned to the school principal, where they explained that there had been a mistake and her son should attend Tatar lessons.

"Can I write a statement that my child does not want to learn the Tatar language?"

Any parent or legal representative of a student can apply to their school with such a statement.

"Me and my child's native language is Russian. I want him to learn it as an additional language"

The Department of State Policy in the Sphere of General Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia stated that students can choose to study Russian as their mother tongue and study it within the framework of the subject "Mother tongue and native literature". Along with Russian in this category, you can study the state languages ​​of the republics and the native language from among the languages ​​of the peoples of Russia. There is only one limitation - the school must provide an opportunity to learn this language.

"In our school, they force you to sign an application for additional study of the Tatar language. Is this legal?"

"By the way, the teachers say that if my child doesn't learn Tatar, he won't be able to pass the examination in this subject and won't be able to finish school. Is that true?"

According to the orders of the Ministry of Education of Russia, the state final certification includes mandatory exams only in the Russian language and mathematics. Examinations in other academic subjects, including in their native language from among the languages ​​of the peoples of Russia, are taken by students on a voluntary basis of their choice. If a child is forced to take such an exam without fail, this is a violation of the Russian legislation on education. This is the answer of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of General Education of the Ministry of Education of Russia.

"If I'm not mistaken, parents have the right to choose their child's curriculum?"

Parents or legal representatives can participate in the discussion and approval of curricula. Their opinion regarding the study of subjects is necessarily taken into account. The school may also request separate written consent to study subjects in the curriculum.

"Is it true that parents are summoned to the prosecutor's office?"

Yes, but only those who have previously applied there themselves are called. There is nothing wrong with this.

"Was it possible to write there?"

Can. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, together with Rospotrebnadzor, will check the voluntary nature of studying the Tatar language in Tatarstan in October 2017 as part of Vladimir Putin's order. The check must be completed in Russia by November 30.

Yes, there are already ideas for some schools - this is when the prosecutor's office finds violations and asks to correct them. So, in social networks such an idea is actively spreading from the prosecutor's office of the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan to the director of some district school in Kazan (the number has been erased). It says that an inspection of the implementation of the legislation was carried out and violations were revealed. "Teaching and learning the state languages ​​of the republics of Russia should not be carried out to the detriment of teaching and learning the state language of Russia," the document reads.

It also says that at school they were allowed to "choose" only one native language - Tatar, and this is a restriction of the law.

"Teaching the discipline "Tatar language" or "Tatar literature" in accordance with the norms of the Federal State Educational Standard (Federal State Educational Standard), the federal basic plan and exemplary curricula developed by the Ministry of Education of Russia, can only be carried out within the subject area "Mother tongue" and exclusively with consent of the parents (legal representatives) of students," the prosecutor's office said.

"I heard another opinion: in Tatarstan– two state languages, Tatar schoolchildren must learn both"

Yes, in September the Ministry of Education of Tatarstan stated that Tatar, along with Russian, was established as the state language of Tatarstan by the Constitution of the Republic, which means that its study is provided.

"By the Decree of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of November 16, 2004 No. 16-P, the study of the Russian and Tatar languages ​​in general educational institutions as state languages ​​in the Republic of Tatarstan is recognized as not contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Accordingly, the Tatar language as a compulsory subject is subject to study in all general educational institutions Republic of Tatarstan. Thus, the appeals (and samples of statements) distributed on social networks to refuse to study the Tatar language contradict the current legislation and mislead the parents of students, "the website of the Ministry of Education of Tatarstan reports.

Note that this explanation of the ministry is fixed on the main page of the site.

"So they're not going to change anything?"

At the very end of this explanation it is said that the Prime Minister of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin a decision was made to bring, from January 1, 2018, the volumes of studying the Russian language to the volumes recommended by the Ministry of Education of Russia. "Other measures are also being worked out to improve the language policy in the Republic of Tatarstan," the website says.

"What is the result? My child may not learn the Tatar language?"

So far, there is no final and official statement from the ministries and the authorities of Tatarstan and Russia in general. Hence the doubts, and the eternal dispute in the network. At the end of the inspection by the prosecutor's office, it may become clear in which direction the schools of Tatarstan will move.

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In the State Duma of Russia, the discussion of the second edition of the amendments to the law "On Education" begins. The abolition of the compulsory study of the languages ​​of the national republics within Russia has been worrying their residents for a year now. The parents were divided into two camps.

In Kazan, Tatars and Russians are almost equally divided - 47 and 48 percent, there are many mixed families. Tatarstan has two official languages ​​- Russian and Tatar. Bilingualism is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic. For the last twenty years, all students have studied Tatar 6 lessons a week. Last year, the compulsory study of the Tatar language in schools was declared illegal. The reason was the statement of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the inadmissibility of forced learning of a non-native language.

“Within the framework of the legislation of the Council of Europe, within the educational standards recommended by the Council of Europe, there is a concept of competence called “mother tongue”. That is, it is a core competency. Our native language is not registered within the framework of the Federal State Educational Standard, and accordingly there is no final attestation in the native language. There is only a final certification in the state Russian language, ”says Airat Fazrakhmanov, historian, deputy chairman World Forum of Tatar Youth.

Even in the second edition of the document, only one of the four versions of the curricula provides for the compulsory teaching of the native language.

The bill assumes that the choice will be made by the parents. If the majority of the parents in a class decide not to study Tatar, the children of the rest will have to submit to someone else's choice. Ekaterina, the mother of an eighth-grader, believes that learning the Tatar language for her son is a waste of time.

“My eldest son is studying at school, he graduated from the eighth grade this year. We have been studying the Tatar language for eight years, unfortunately, to no avail. Almost every day from the first to the eighth grade,” says the mother of an eighth grader.

Changes in language policy have already affected teachers of national languages. In the middle of the academic year, the prosecutor's office of Tatarstan demanded the dismissal of teachers of the Tatar language. Most of the school principals did this. And only the director of the school Sun Pavel Shmakov refused and filed a lawsuit against the prosecutor's office.

"The sun is an abbreviation: Specialized scientific olympiad Centre. We are a school in which children are taught from the fifth to the 11th grade. The prosecutor's office of our country in general and the prosecutor's office of Tatarstan in particular, in my opinion, went too far. When they came to us with checks, we were ordered to dismiss the teachers of the Tatar language in a very short time, immediately, in the middle of the school year, in winter, to change the curricula, ”says Pavel Shmakov, director of the Solntse school.

The students of the school agree with their principal. For six months, parents and high school students invariably came to the courts to support Pavel Shmakov.

« I like the Tatar language, and in general everything connected with it, because we generally live in Tatarstan, we should know the Tatar language, the Tatars are like our brothers,” says Alexander, a 5th grade student of the Solntse school.

What future awaits the languages ​​of the national republics will become clear after the adoption of the law. In fact, the question of teaching is not being solved. And then, whether Tatar, Mari, Chuvash, Dagestan and others will be only languages ​​of domestic communication or cultures of multinational Russia.

Yulia Fayzrakhmanova, Belsat

The State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan unanimously adopted a draft resolution on the teaching of the Tatar language in the schools of the republic. As the chairman of the State Council noted at a meeting of the Parliament of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin, the government of the republic, together with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, did a lot of work - "a common understanding was found with colleagues from the federal ministry."

“The main result of the consultations was that the Tatar language as the state language of the Republic of Tatarstan will be studied in schools within the framework of the curricula. On November 28, in response to an appeal from the President of the Republic, Minnikhanov Rustam Nurgalievich, a letter was received from the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva, who was sent to us with exemplary curricula providing for the study of the state languages ​​of the republics of the Russian Federation, where the state language of the republics of the Russian Federation is legally established.

The Ministry of Education and Science has a lot of work to do on the adoption by schools of curricula with the inclusion of the state Tatar language in them in the amount of two hours. It is necessary to implement a set of measures, including making changes to the work programs in the Tatar language, updating educational literature, methodological documents, advanced training and retraining of personnel.

Further dragging out and postponing this issue, as well as discussions in society, create tension in relationships, as I said, both in the teacher's environment, and in the parental, family, even among children.

Therefore, dear colleagues, at the suggestion of the members of the Presidium of the State Council, I am making a proposal: do not open the debate, proceed to consider the draft resolution on this issue, and the Protocol Committee of the State Council on Education, Culture, Science and National Affairs, Deputy Valeev, will need to take control of all this work , and it is not excluded that from time to time we will return to the consideration of the progress of this work at committee meetings.

Let me announce the draft resolution, just two points: “Having heard the information of the chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Mukhametshin, the prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Nafikov on teaching and studying the state languages ​​of the Republic of Tatarstan, the native languages ​​of the peoples living in the Republic of Tatarstan, the State Council decides: to take into account the information of Mukhametshin and Nafikov, to propose to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, Fattakhov Engel Navapovich to take measures to organize the educational process in state and municipal educational institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan in accordance with the exemplary curricula presented by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on November 28, 2017. This is such a short decision [taken] after we postponed this issue at two sessions," Mukhametshin said.

The draft resolution was adopted unanimously - 71 deputies voted in favor.

“Thank you very much, I think this resolution was adopted and supported by you with great understanding. The same understanding of both the importance and the complexity of this issue should now move into the working channel for the preparation of new documents that will be jointly prepared by the Ministry of Education and the Government of the Republic,” added the Chairman of the State Council.

Video: press service of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan

The only opportunity to learn a language for preschoolers is to get into a Tatar group or a Tatar kindergarten

The language revolution, having done away with Tatar in schools, reached kindergartens. The manuals of 2013, which regulate the compulsory study of the state language of Tatarstan by preschoolers, are not subject to application - the letter was signed by the new Minister of Education Rafis Burganov on the last working day of last year. While supporters of the voluntary Tatar “shout: hurrah! And they throw bonnets into the air,” the new minister’s letter knocked the ground out from under their feet for Tatar parents: they say that there is practically no opportunity to learn their native language in kindergartens. Details in the material of Realnoe Vremya.

Kindergartens were reminded of the Federal State Educational Standard, in which there is no place for Tatar

On New Year's Eve, the language revolution, which ended the compulsory study of the Tatar language in schools, reached kindergartens. On December 29, the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan Rafis Burganov sent a letter “On planning educational activities in preschool educational institutions” to the heads of regional departments of education.

In short, the kindergartens were reminded that they should form the schedule of classes and the volume of the educational load in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standards and SanPin, additionally informing that the training manual of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan dated 08.11.2013 is not subject to application. This manual just consolidated the obligatory study of the Tatar language in kindergartens.

As the Minister of Education and Science of Tatarstan Rafis Burganov told Realnoe Vremya, there is no talk of abolishing Tatar in kindergartens, just following schools in kindergartens, the program was brought into line with the requirements of the prosecutor's office.

At one time, we had representations from the prosecutor’s office in general education schools, and we sent the corresponding letters, the same as in general education schools with programs, with our methodological proposals, to those institutions that also regulate the teaching of state and native languages, commented Burganov.

As Rafis Burganov said, there is no talk of abolishing Tatar in kindergartens, just following schools in kindergartens, they brought the program in line with the requirements of the prosecutor's office. Photo by Maxim Platonov

To a clarifying question from a Realnoe Vremya correspondent: “So, in kindergartens, just like in schools, parents will be able to choose whether or not to attend Tatar lessons?” - Rafis Burganov answered: "Yes."

Repay the debt: clocks in Tatar borrowed from drawing and mathematics

What was criminal in the training manual from 2013 that kindergartens were forbidden to use it? According to it, children in the younger group studied the Tatar language during games, and starting from the middle group - three times a week for 20 minutes. In order not to go overboard with the study load, which, for example, in the preparatory group should be no more than 14 lessons per week, the time for two Tatar lessons was borrowed from other subjects, and the third hour was set additionally in violation of SanPiN.

So, in the middle group, the watch was taken away from modeling / application, drawing and broadening one's horizons. In the senior group - in the subjects "Knowledge" and drawing, and in the preparatory group - in the "formation of elementary mathematical representations" and drawing.

To say that these lessons have been canceled completely is wrong. They were transferred to “regime moments”, that is, they were engaged in between times - during the time allotted for games, they were either included in the schedule additionally, or additionally, but already as paid services. This is what has angered some parents. In addition, drawing and modeling, parents are sure, are more useful than the Tatar language, as they develop fine motor skills, and bilingualism at an early age is harmful, especially for children with speech therapy problems.

In the preparatory group, children have the maximum load provided for by SanPiN. This means that there should be no more clubs and no more classes. Otherwise, there will be overwork, the child will not have time to recover, he will get sick. It’s just that you still have to prepare children for school outside the kindergarten, do extra work, decide on hellish overload from the age of 6 just so that the child can continue to study normally. Or make a choice between preparing a child for school and his health, - says Raya Demidova, head of the "Parental Community of Tatarstan".

Children in the younger group studied the Tatar language during games, and starting from the middle group - 3 times a week for 20 minutes. Photo by Gulandam Zaripova

There is Tatar, but there is no opportunity to learn it

Burganov's letter, canceling the 2013 training manual in kindergartens, was called a New Year's gift by opponents of the compulsory study of Tatar. Back in November 2017, they started collecting complaints about the forced Tatar language in kindergartens. Now they have created a form for refusing the Tatar language, which they offer to fill out for all parents, where they categorically demand “not to teach our child the Tatar language in any form and according to any educational programs” and “exclude the work of a teacher in teaching the Tatar language with our child in free educational activities without creating a Tatar language environment in communication with it.

While some parents rejoice at the victory over Tatar in kindergartens, others are worried. According to Chulpan Khamidova, an activist of the Tatar ata-analary community, the teacher of the kindergarten her children attend, on the first day after the holidays she was upset that they would no longer have Tatar language lessons.

What we most feared happened: optimistic statements “there is Tatar, who wants to learn it”, but in fact there is no technical possibility to learn it. Tatar was three times a week for 20 minutes, now instead of it they put modeling, drawing, and there is no time left for Tatar in the schedule, - says Khamidova.

According to Chulpan Khamidova, the only way to learn Tatar is to get into a Tatar kindergarten or a Tatar group, but there are not enough of them.

Of course, there are more Tatar kindergartens than schools, but considering that, for example, we could not get there, there is a problem. We also could not get into the Tatar group: at first we were told that there was no group of our age, then there were no teachers. Tatar lessons used to somehow compensate us for this, - says Chulpan Khamidova.

The only opportunity for kids to learn Tatar is to get into a Tatar kindergarten or a Tatar group, but there are not enough of them. Photo info-islam.ru

Now, according to Realnoe Vremya's interlocutor, the only hope for Tatar parents is that in connection with the new order, Tatar groups will become more popular and will open them in kindergartens.

Daria Turtseva