Além dos Tártaros, Chechenos e Ingushes que dia após dia protestam contra a centralização Russa e o domínio a que são impostos, os Bashquires (ou Bashkires) da Rep. Aut. do Bashkortostão resolveram também protestar contra as políticas de Moscou quanto ao seus direitos de usar sua língua (Bashquir) e tê-la ensinada em suas escolas.
Cerca de duas mil pessoas se reuniram em Ufa, capital do Bashkortostão para protestar contra as novas ordens de Moscou que visam retirar da grade escolar o idioma local além das aulas sobre história e geografia da região, o que enfraquece ainda mais os laços dessa população minoritária e constantemente pressionada pelos Russos e Russo-falantes.
"Protesters Rally In Bashkortostan To Save Language Education"
Protesters defended their right to education in the their native language.
April 21, 2009UFA, Bashkortostan -- Some 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Ufa, the capital of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, to protest Moscow’s policy of removing elements of ethnically specific education from schools, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
The demonstrators came from across Bashkortostan on April 18 to protest Moscow’s plans to remove so-called regional and ethnic classes from schools in as of September 1.
The activists say the decision to ban classes on the history, geography, and languages of the republics may lead to a complete loss of ethnic and linguistic identity.
The demonstrators adopted a resolution stating that the new restrictions abuse the right of Russia's ethnic minorities to obtain an education in their own languages.
People from Bashkortostan's Ukrainian, Chuvash, Daghestani, and Kazakh cultural centers took part in the protest.
Tatar organizations in Tatarstan are also protesting the proposed changes to their schools’ curricula.
No Tartastão (Tartária), também em protesto contra a política de Moscou de retirar das escolas o ensiono da língua Tártara, prepara-se o Dia da Linha Materna com campanhas por toda a Rússia, em regiões de forte presença Tártara buscando dar status oficial à lingua em nível Federa.
Tatars In Russia Preparing For Mother Tongue Day
Last updated: 21.04.2009 09:48KAZAN -- Ethnic Tatar communities around Russia are preparing to mark Mother Tongue Day in Tatarstan on April 26.
Firaya Shaikhieva, head of the Languages Department in Tatarstan's government, told RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service that a special campaign called "I Speak Tatar!" will be held in the republic and other regions of the Russian Federation on that day.
She said Tatarstan's government has sent books, leaflets, and other materials to the Russian cities of Sverdlovsk, Orenburg, and to some regions that have large Tatar populations.
Activists in Tatarstan last week began a campaign to collect signatures to promote Tatar as the second official language of Russia.
Tatars officially constitute 3.8 percent of Russia's population, or some 5.4 million people.
