Tatarstan will help Crimean Tatars establish ethnically focused education system

A meeting on cooperation between the Republic of Crimea and Tatarstan was held in the peninsula’s Bakhchisaray region today.

Tatarstan delegation included the republic's Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Aide to Tatarstan President Asgat Safarov and others.

Ildar Khalikov began by thanking the Crimean party for hospitality, recalling that the republic had been assigned to assist Crimea’s Bakhchisaray region. Tatarstan and Crimea were connected historically and culturally, he said. “In the recent years, however, cooperation between us has substantially declined,” I. Khalikov stated. “Today, we have a chance to resume the cooperation.”

“We can adopt a lot from you and you can take a lot from the present-day’s Tatarstan,” I. Khalikov told Bakhchisaray region’s executives.

Tatarstan premier went on to brief the meeting on the republic’s socio-economic trends. The two regions could benefit greatly from cooperating in medicine, he specified.

“We have successes in education as well,” I. Khalikov stressed. “All teachers have laptop computers, the training system is well developed. Children in the village have the same opportunities to study as do children in the city.”

Bakhchisaray region could be interested in ethnicity-focused education that Tatarstan highlights. “We have a practice of observing the national education standards while promoting ethnicity-based education,” I. Khalikov said.

Cooperation in the field of research, primarily historical studies, could be another area of Tatarstan Science and Education Ministry’s work in Crimea, he said.

Later today, Tatarstan Prime Minister is scheduled to attend a meeting in Simferopol chaired by Russian vice premier Dmitry Kozak and dealing with providing financial and instructional assistance to Crimea.

Photo from: prav.tatarstan.ru