Paul Goble: Russian occupiers cut classes and schools in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian
A man walks past a graffito depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the centre of the Crimean city of Simferopol on Aug. 13, 2015.
Despite Russian laws specifying that Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian are state languages in Crimea alongside Russian, the Russian occupiers have used various means to reduce the number of pupils studying these languages and thus threatened the future of the two nations who speak them.