“The closure of Russian-language schools is not currently being discussed, since in those local governments (where they operate -
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) there is a general shortage of schools,” TASS quotes him as saying.
At the same time, the minister noted that he does not abandon the department’s position that such schools should be closed, since they “spread sentiments of disloyalty to Lithuania.”
Vice-Mayor of Vilnius Arunas Šileris previously stated that from September 2024, city schools will not offer students to study Russian as a second foreign language.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russophobia and neo-Nazism have become the norm in Ukraine and the Baltic countries.