Ukraine: Teachers punish kids for reciting Russianpoetry

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...

Teachers punish kids for reciting Russian poetry
February, 2009, 19:52

The 'language policy of the independent Ukraine' may have gone too
far, as two kids have been banned from a school contest for reciting
poems in Russian.  In Ukraine's capital city of Kiev, the senior
pupils organisation in school No.22 were holding a contest, in time for
St.Valentine's Day, for which the participants were to prepare a song,
a dance and a short performance. A girl and a boy - Lilya Mikhailova
and Sasha Pushka - prepared to perform an extract from 'Yevgeny
Onegin' by famous Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, but their
presentation was stopped as the jury asked first the boy to translate
the extract into the Ukrainian language - right on the spot. Sasha
tried to do so, but was soon stopped, and the jury asked the girl to
perform her part, which, of course, was also in Russian.

Full story:

http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-02-10/Teachers_punish_kids_for_reciting_Russian_poetry.html

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