Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren

[Elena Gapova]

Well, not exactly. The translation goes

Schoolchildren at schools with Russian as the main language of instruction
were forbidden to fill in their "journals" (where they enter their
assinnments etc) in Belarusian (though I doubt this is what actually
happened).

Last year an American master's student sent me her paper on Ukrainian
culture working from the assertion that in the USSR the Ukrainian language
was banned. She must have relied on similar evidence for her research and
was very uncomfortable when I told her that this is not true.

Elena Gapova


----- Original Message -----
From: Uladzimir Katkouski <uladzik at MAILBOX.HU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 5 March 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren


Hi!

>From today's news:

http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2004/03/20040305142729.asp

* U skolnych dzionnikach zabaranili bielaruskuju movu. Pavodle zahadu
ministerstva adukacyji vucniam rasiejskamounych skolau zabaranili
zapauniac dzionniki pa-bielarusku.

* Ministry of Education of Belarus banned schoolchildren from filling
out their "journal" (dzionnik) in Belarusian language.


Regards,
U.K. aka Rydel
http://blog.rydel.net/




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