Paul Goble
Staunton, Aug. 25 – The Russian Ministry of Enlightenment which oversees primary and secondary education in the Russian Federation has dropped “native language” and “native literature” from its required course list as of the 2026-2027 school year and thus eliminated the option of federal subjects to make these courses obligatory for students.
Now, pupils can take these courses only if their parents ask for them to be allowed to do so and if the government of the federal subject has sufficient funds available to pay for such instruction (nazaccent.ru/content/44424-shkolnye-predmety-rodnoj-yazyk-i-rodnaya-literatura-stanut-neobyazatelnymi/).
This move is the latest step in the realization of Putin’s declaration in 2018 that study of non-Russian languages must be voluntary and likely presages a further decline in the number of non-Russians who will be studying their native languages in schools and thus a falloff in the number of non-Russians who will know and use their languages.
The enlightenment ministry also made the study of a second foreign language voluntary in order to free up time for additional and compulsory hours of classes on Russian history and Russian national traditions.
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