APPROXIMATELY 10 THOUSAND PUPILS STUDY IN RUSSIAN CLASSES OF ARMENIAN SCHOOLS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 16, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Approximately 10 thousand pupils
study in the Russian classes (classes, where pupils study subjects
in the Russian language) of 1362 secondary schools operating in
Armenia. At that, only two of those schools are completely Russian, in
40 of them there are Russian classes, 16 out of which are in Yerevan,
the rest in the regions.

According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent
by Lilia Balasanian, a leading specialist of the Administration of
General Education under the RA Ministry of Education and Science,
pupils, who are citizens of Russia or one of whose parents is Russian,
as well as the representatives of national minorities can study in
the Russian classes.

In the words of Lilia Balasanian, there have been almost no first-form
Russian classes for the past two years. As for middle and senior
calsses, they are replenished by Armenian children, having returned
from Russia.

Lilia Balasanian mentioned that lessons are conducted with text-books
guaranteed by the RF Ministry of Education and Science, by programs
guaranteed and endorsed by the RA Ministry of Education and Science.