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education at Chechen schoolsA Gazeta.ru correspondent visited the Chechen Republic and tried to find out whether it is possible to study Orthodox Christian culture at schools in the Muslim republic.
A month ago schools in 19 Russian regions began teaching Introduction to Religious Culture and Secular Ethics. The course consists of several modules, in one of which the student has a choice of studying one of the three official religions in Russia (Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Buddhism). When asked to vote, 99.64% of parents in Chechnya expressed the wish for their children to study Islamic culture. Only 72 out of 20,000 fourth-graders take Orthodox Christian culture classes in Chechnya.
Islam had never been officially taught in Chechnya. To read the Koran, one had to enroll in a mosque school. However, children in fifth to eleventh grades had to take "Vainakh Ethics," the only class taught in the Chechen language
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