"Voting is the people's lifeblood": Residents of a village in Mordovia refused to vote to close a school.

In a Mordvin village Shoksha On August 18, local residents were scheduled to vote for or against the closure of the local school. It taught the unique Shoksha dialect of the Erzya language. Starting in the new school year, children from the village will travel to the district center for school, as the school building in Shoksha is said to be in disrepair.

"Voting is a bone to pick for the people. They say your opinion was taken into account, but they didn't even consider it; they just asked, pretending it was important," explained «Regional aspect» Anastasia Babina, resident of Shoksha. 

Last week, even before the voting day, residents of Shoksha were already given lists of children with distribution to other classes at the school in the district center Tengushevo.

At the meeting, it was decided not to make a final decision at this time, but to conduct a new inspection of the school building. A previous inspection, which the parents had paid for themselves, showed that the building was indeed in need of repair, but classes could continue to be held there. According to Anastasia Babina, a residents' initiative group has already been formed in the village to oversee the inspection.

В of Russia In recent years, there has been an attack on centers where national languages ​​are preserved, and the hours for studying native languages ​​in schools have been reduced. North Ossetia Inhabitants wrote appeals calling for the adoption of a law on the state languages ​​of the region in order to preserve the Ossetian language.

Earlier, the parents from Shoksha were supported by the prosecutor's office - it revealed Violations The local investigative committee and police have launched an investigation: according to Anastasia Babina, the renovations carried out at the school were not documented in any way.