Sadyr Zhaparov commented on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks about the law on the state language adopted in the republic. Minister Lavrov, speaking about the adopted law of the Kyrgyz Republic, said that "it is not quite democratic." "When this idea first appeared, we warned our Kyrgyz friends that it is not quite democratic. I mean to oblige all civil servants to know the Kyrgyz language and work in it," the Russian foreign minister said. "Apparently, Sergey Lavrov has not studied the law in detail. It does not intend to discriminate against the Russian language. On the contrary, it states that Russian will be used as an official language. This norm is also laid in the Constitution. It will be preserved in the future. The law does not apply to teachers and doctors. Let's consider the situation on the example of a school teacher of Russian language of Russian nationality. No one will dismiss him from his job because he does not know Kyrgyz. For us, the Russian language plays as important a role as Kyrgyz, because we build relations with the CIS countries through the Russian language. We also negotiate with China, Arab and European countries in Russian. The emphasis here is different: we want to fully develop our language. Government officials, deputies, as we notice, speak half in Russian and half in Kyrgyz. No one speaks pure Russian or pure Kyrgyz. It's always a mix. So we need to master both languages at the right level. Along with them, we should also study English, French, Chinese and other languages, because the more we know, the better," President Zhaparov said.

Source: Kyrgyz National News Agency