{"id":1254908,"date":"2025-07-02T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/azerbaijan-plans-to-close-all-russian-language-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:08:12","slug":"azerbaijan-plans-to-close-all-russian-language-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/azerbaijan-plans-to-close-all-russian-language-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan plans to close all Russian-language schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amid the worsening relations with Russia, Azerbaijan is planning to close all Russian-language schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/oxu.az\/ru\/obshestvo\/v-azerbajdzhane-zakryvayutsya-russkoyazychnye-shkoly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> on Oxu.az.<\/p>\n<p> Parents of students received notifications about the closure of Russian-language schools on WhatsApp. It follows from them that they want to close the schools in stages.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that in the next three years, Russian-language schools in Azerbaijan will switch to teaching in the Azerbaijani language, and retraining courses for teachers will also be organized.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, a source at one of the schools confirmed this information. It is worth noting that there was no official announcement about the closure of the schools.<\/p>\n<p> There are over 300 Russian-language schools in Azerbaijan, 16 of which teach only in Russian, while the others teach in two languages.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that earlier in Russia, raids were conducted on Azerbaijani citizens, during which almost 50 people from the diaspora were detained on suspicion of murder. The main suspects in the case &#8211; brothers Hussein and Ziyaddin Safarov &#8211; died shortly after their detention.<\/p>\n<p> In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/azerbaydzhan-skasuvav-rosiyski-kulturni-zakhody-v-chomu-prychyna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azerbaijan canceled all cultural events organized by Russian state and private institutions in protest against the deaths of two of its citizens<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the worsening relations with Russia, Azerbaijan is planning to close all Russian-language schools. This was reported on Oxu.az. Parents of students received notifications about the closure of Russian-language schools on WhatsApp. It follows from them that they want to close the schools in stages. It is noted that in the next three years, Russian-language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1124322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76873,76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1254908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}