Moscow urged international human rights institutions of the UN, OSCE and Council of Europe to assess the Ukrainian law "on General secondary education" and the continuing discrimination against the Russian language in Ukraine. "It is with regret that, despite the advice of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe" to provide the necessary balance " in the field of language and promises of the Kiev authorities to fulfill them, in fact, nothing has changed - Russian language in Ukraine continues to be subject to double discrimination ", - reported in the explanations of the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs. the Ministry stressed that, in Accordance With the legislative act the right to education in their mother tongue during the entire time of study in high school are only Authorized indigenous peoples, to which Ukraine considers Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks. Minorities who speak the languages of the countries of the European Union, will study the native language until the 5th grade, and then learning Ukrainian is gradually increasing From 20 to 60% by the ninth grade. In addition, for Russian-speaking children, the share is even higher - More than 80% after the 5th class. In addition to Russian, under these measures fall more the Belarusian language and Yiddish. The Verkhovna Rada adopted the law "On General secondary education" 17 Jan. It is still obliged to sign the head of the Vladimir Zelensky. In addition, Since the fall of 2017 to the law of Ukraine " on education ", According to which to learn the languages of national minorities in kindergarten and starting school, parallel study of the state language. The 5th class of the languages of national minorities can only be studied as a separate discipline. The Venice Commission noted that this law does not offer solutions for languages that are not included in the number of EU official languages and Russian among them - as "the most widely used non-state languages" and it talks About discrimination. currently in Ukraine there are about 200 Russian schools, since all they are required to become a Ukrainian. <span style="color:darkgray