On Thursday the Romanian Government adopted concrete measures to
\nsupport the ethnic Romanian students and their teachers in the neighboring
\nUkraine. Therefore, the best one thousand students will receive from the
\nRomanian state monthly scholarships amounting to 200 lei, that is around 50
\nEuros. Also 300 teachers from the Romanian schools in Ukraine will be able to
\nattend teacher training and development courses in the universities of Cluj
\n(northwest), Suceava (northeast), Iasi (east) and Galati (center east). <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Those
\nwho can enroll in these courses are the teachers who hold diplomas allowing
\nthem to be teachers on the territory of Ukraine and who can provide documents
\nproving that they have declared their Romanian identity. The candidates will be
\nselected by the higher education institutions that organize the training
\ncourses, with the support of the associations, organizations and foundations of
\nethnic Romanians in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
These measures, initiated upon the proposal of the
\nMinistry for Romanians Abroad, are meant to ensure the observance of the right
\nto linguistic identity for the ethnic Romanians in Ukraine, through means that
\nshould provide tuition in their mother tongue, writes a communiqu\u00e9 of the
\naforementioned ministry. Bucharest is thus trying to mitigate the effects of
\nthe new Ukrainian education law, which was passed last autumn and which largely
\nrestricts the ethnic minorities’ right to education in their mother tongue. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
According
\nto that law, children belonging to the ethnic minorities in Ukraine will be
\nable to study in their language only in kindergarten and primary school.
\nStarting with secondary school, they will have to study exclusively in
\nUkrainian. This month, the Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu proposed
\nto his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin that Romania and Ukraine draft a
\ncommon document on the implementation of the Ukrainian education law.
\nPreviously, Minister Melescanu and his counterparts from Hungary, Bulgaria and
\nGreece had signed a joint letter in which they expressed concern with and
\nprofound regret over the passing of the new education law in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The
\nRomanian education minister Liviu Pop traveled to Kiev to make a plea against
\nthis law. In a declaration voted unanimously in Romania’s Parliament, Bucharest
\nofficials called for the re-examination of the law and warned that they were
\nfollowing ‘very closely and with concern’ the developments generated by the
\nprovisions of this law. In turn, the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis decided
\nto postpone his visit to Kiev. Analysts consider Bucharest’s concerns
\nabsolutely legitimate, given that almost half a million ethnic Romanians live
\nin Ukraine, most of them in the eastern Romanian territories annexed in 1940,
\nfollowing an ultimatum, by the former Soviet Union. The territories were taken
\nover by Ukraine as a successor state in 1991.<\/p>\n
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