Lithuania should phase out Russian language teaching - president's adviser

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On the other hand, we need to ensure that we can pick from other foreign languages, like French, German or others, and we also need teachers for that,” she told the radio Žinių Radijas on Tuesday.Read more: Latvia plans to scrap Russian language classes, Lithuania may follow suitRussian is among the most popular foreign languages taught in Lithuanian schools.However, since the start of the war in Ukraine, some politicians have suggested to restrict Russian language teaching.Lithuania’s education authorities have indicated that they will recommend schools to drop Russian as a second foreign language.According to Urbanovič, the number of students in Lithuania who pick to study Russian remains high, although it is going down."

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