According to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, on October 11 and 12, 2023, in Bishkek the next meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States took place. The heads of foreign policy agencies of the CIS member states discussed over 20 issues. As a result […]
According to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, on October 11 and 12, 2023, in Bishkek the next meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States took place.
The heads of foreign policy agencies of the CIS member states discussed over 20 issues.
As a result of the meeting, a number of documents were agreed upon, including the Treaty on the Establishment of the International Organization for the Russian Language.
The statement notes that the CIS foreign ministers presented to the heads of state issues regarding the conclusion of the Treaty on the Establishment of the International Organization for the Russian Language, the Intergovernmental Program of Joint Measures to Combat Crime for 2024–2028, as well as a number of other agreements and statements.
Although 32 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian language still remains the main language of interethnic communication in the post-Soviet space.
Earlier, the Russian ambassador in Dushanbe, Semyon Grigoryev, reported that “in Tajikistan, 60 schools conduct education solely in Russian, and another 178 schools have Russian classes. In total, they cover over 120,000 students.”
Some experts emphasize that the total number of Russian speakers in Tajikistan is only a few thousand people, but more than 120,000 students study in Russian schools and classes, as there is demand for it and this is required by the Ministry of Education. However, when the number of Tajiks in Russia exceeds 2.5 million, and there is not a single Tajik-speaking school in Russia, this causes pain.
While English currently has the status of an international language, and in most CIS schools, English is taught as the main foreign language, Russia, using the mechanisms of the CIS under its control, promotes the Russian language in the CIS territory. The establishment of the International Organization for the Russian Language is also one of the ways to promote the Russian language.