Minister of Education Kallas: Russian Schools Still Do Not Provide Children with Sufficient Estonian Language Skills

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A large proportion of Estonia's existing Russian-language schools still do not provide children with sufficient Estonian language skills, Minister of Education and Research Kristina Kallas admitted at a government press conference on Thursday.

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Hendrik Agur, who has shaken up the educational life of Ida-Viru with his emphasized Estonian-ness, shocked the public at the end of the year with a harsh statement: for decades, Russian basic schools have been fraudulently producing graduates who are illiterate, whose certificates boast positive Estonian language grades, but who cannot even ask for the location of the toilet in the official language.