YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Approximately 10 thousand pupils study in the Russian classes (classes, where pupils study subjects in the Russian language) of 1362 secondary schools operating in Armenia. At that, only two of those schools are completely Russian, in 40 of them there are Russian classes, 16 out of which are in Yerevan, the rest in the regions. According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Lilia Balasanian, a leading specialist of the Administration of General Education under the RA Ministry of Education and Science, pupils, who are citizens of Russia or one of whose parents is Russian, as well as the representatives of national minorities can study in the Russian classes. In the words of Lilia Balasanian, there have been almost no first-form Russian classes for the past two years. As for middle and senior calsses, they are replenished by Armenian children, having returned from Russia. Lilia Balasanian mentioned that lessons are conducted with text-books guaranteed by the RF Ministry of Education and Science, by programs guaranteed and endorsed by the RA Ministry of Education and Science.

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