RUSSIA MADE A PRESENT TO AZERBAIJANI SCHOOLS
Russian Government presented books and encyclopedias to Azerbaijani Education Ministry. Russian Embassy to Azerbaijan held a ceremony on this occasion on November 14. After the official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Azerbaijan at the beginning of 2001, it was decided on annual providing Russian-language schools in Azerbaijan with text-books and encyclopedias, Charge' D'affaires of Russian Embassy to Azerbaijan Peter Burdykin stressed addressing the ceremony. Last year, some 300 different books, 100 copies each were delivered to Azerbaijan from Russia.
Particularly thanking Russian Government and the Embassy, Deputy Minister of Education Iskender Iskenderov emphasized that Azerbaijani Government completely provided Azerbaijani schools with textbooks adding: “however we always face the problem of publishing new books for Russian-language schools”. Today about 109 thousand students or 6,7 % of the overall number of students in Azerbaijan get education in Russian.
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