March 16, 2004 - 18:04 AMT
THREE NEW ARMENIAN SCHOOLS OPENED IN RUSSIA
Three Sunday schools opened in Russia lately. As reported by the section for relations with the Diaspora of the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia, two of them are opened in the Krasnodar region - in Krymsk and Goryachy Klyuch towns, and the third - in Nizhny Tagil. At present the Ministry is occupied with providing Armenian textbooks to them. It should be noted that there were 23 Armenian schools in Russia before, 19 out of them being schools of general education, 4 - Sunday schools. Over 6400 children study in the schools.