MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked the government with working out a mechanism for in-person learning at schools, kindergartens, sanatoriums and recreational camps for children from the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions and considering the possibility of arranging online classes there.
"Taking into account the previously issued instructions on admitting children evacuated from the affected regions to schools and preschool educational establishments," the Russian government together with the regional authorities were ordered to "develop mechanisms enabling children's in-person leaning at educational establishments of other constituent territories of the Russian Federation, including at sanatoriums and children's camps, as well as consider the possibility of organizing online classes for children at schools in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions," the list of instructions issued following a meeting on the situation in these three regions and published on the Kremlin website said.
The government was also ordered to decide how vocational school and university students moved from the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions can continue their education and ensure that they are provided with budget-funded places at educational establishments, and can live in their dormitories free of charge during the evacuation period.