State Duma Education Committee Chairman Olga Kazakova: There is no question of excluding Solzhenitsyn’s novel “The Gulag Archipelago” from the school curriculum KXan 36 Daily News

“Issues of exclusion from the school curriculum of a certain section, work, or vice versa, inclusion in the program is a complex and long process. These decisions are not made that way, based on private opinion. We have adopted a law that precisely regulates this. like history, literature, received a special degree of protection. In accordance with it, the federal program of literature for all schools in the country was approved. And the question of excluding the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn “The Gulag Archipelago” neither remained nor remains Russia”, nor the party faction in the State Duma. It was not discussed in the relevant Duma committee and with the professional community, – said Olga Kazakova, quoted by the ER press service. – But Fadeev’s novel “Young Guard” in the year of the 80th anniversary of the feat underground anti-fascist organization, we, in fact, returned to the school curriculum.And it was a joint initiative of “United Russia” and the Ministry of education gogic community. We hold a large number of consultations and meetings with historians, literary critics, museum staff, teachers and representatives of public associations from Donbass. This was a balanced common decision and an important step for the patriotic education of our children. We defended and defend the historical truth. Our children must know not only the glorious pages, but also the dramatic ones of our history, the history of a great people”.