Ufa: a rally for teaching Bashkir in schools gathered 2300 participants

The inconsistent rally for the mandatory study of the Bashkir language in the schools of Bashkiria, who held at least 1000 participants on Saturday at the Sports Palace in Ufa. This was reported by "Media Corset." Meanwhile, the organizer of the campaign - the movement "Bashҡort" - estimated the number of demonstrators of 2300 people.

As IDEL. Reali reported , in a number of Idel-Ural regions this year, an offensive began on the obligatory teaching of national languages ​​in schools. In July, Vladimir Putin announced inadmissibility to force people to learn languages ​​that are not relatives for them. He also instructed the Prosecutor General’s Office to check whether the teaching of national languages ​​in the schools of regions voluntarily.

After Putin’s statement, the Russian chauvinists launched a campaign against teaching national languages ​​in Tataria and Bashkiria; In the second of these regions, representatives of the large Tatar minority also opposed the obligatory study of Bashkir. The campaign met opposition from national activists of Tataria and Bashkiria; With criticism of Putin, politics and in Chuvashia also said Politin.

In Bashkiria, according to the head of the region, Rustem Khamitov, only 75 percent of parents spoke for the study of the national language.

On Thursday, Gorobzor reported that the City Hall of Ufa refused to coordinate the Bashҡort movement to the rally, demanding to change both the place of action and the time, transferring it to more than a week - from September 16 to 24. The organizers rejected this requirement.

A large number of security forces were pulled into the rally, in particular, several KamAZs with riot police. However, despite the lack of approval, attempts to accelerate demonstrators were not made. The audience brought posters with portraits of Bashkir writers and thinkers; The speakers performed in the Bashkir language. The requirement of the resignation of the head of the Khamitov region was expressed.

Meanwhile, at the end of the rally, the police demanded documents from the leader of the Bashort Ruslan Gabbasov. In the presence of demonstrators who surrounded the activist, the security forces rewrote his data, after him left.

The police tried to detain another leader of the movement, Fail Alsynov, but the protesters repelled him.

However, in the middle of the evening, Alsynov and two of his colleagues - the chairman of the Southern Bashҡort branch Yulai Aralbaev and the chairman of the Trans -Ural branch Ainur Ishkildin - were detained .

After registration of the protocols, all three were released .