Tomorrow, December 15, 2025, the global community will celebrate World Day of Turkic Languages for the first time. This decision was made at the UNESCO General Conference in Samarkand this November. The date was chosen for a reason: on December 15, 1983, Danish linguist Wilhelm Thomsen announced the decipherment of the Orkhon inscriptions, an important example of ancient Turkic writing.
In Dagestan, 44% of kindergartens are overcrowded with children. In addition, almost half of schools do not have enough teaching places. Due to the oversupply of students, less than 2% of students are provided with hot meals required by law, reports Rospotrebnadzor.
In Kabardino-Balkaria, 44% of kindergartens operate in overcrowded conditions, in North Ossetia - almost 28%, in Chechnya - more than 24%.
The regions of the North Caucasus are also among those with the worst quality of school education. These include primarily Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Chechnya.
When compiling the Rospotrebnadzor rating, 15 parameters were taken into account, including the learning outcomes of schoolchildren, educational equality, functional literacy, and the objectivity of assessment procedures.