
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation Yermek Kosherbayev. File photoMOSCOW, Jun 1There is no problem with the Russian language in Kazakhstan, on the contrary, there are problems with the Kazakh language, which is the reason for the educational policy of the Soviet era, said the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation Yermek Kosherbaev. «Russian language in Kazakhstan nothing threatens. We have no problems with the Russian language: ninety percent of the population of Kazakhstan is fluent in Russian,» the diplomat said during an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel. According to him, there are «problems with the Kazakh language» in Kazakhstan, which is «the result of certain distortions in the educational policy of the Soviet Union.» ) in Russian; 2075 schools (over 30%) with mixed languages, that is, more than one million people study in Russian, the ambassador added. «Based on the national composition of the population of our country, this is a very good indicator,» summed up Kosherbaev.
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