YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN. A less number of textbooks and additional literature than it was envisaged was sent to Diasporan Armenian schools this year as there were some problems with the Georgian side. As Tamara Zalikian, the main specialist of the Department of Ties with Diaspora of the RA Ministry of Education and Science mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent, however, the deparment managed to find other ways for sending a part of those. According to her, textbooks published in Armenia are mainly sent to Georgia as the greatest number of Armenian schools acting in Diaspora are here. Those are more than 150 ones, 122 of which are only in Javakhk. T.Zalinian also mentioned that Armenian schools acting in Georgia are called schools with deep education of the Armenian Language. According to T.Zalinian, some groups of textbooks for primary and middle school is sent to the Russian Federation as well. It was mentioned that Diasporan Armenian schools and colleges mainly need Armenological literature. Those schools present orders to get necessary textbooks beforehand, and the orders mainly concern textbooks on Armenological literature. To recap, this is the second year that 70 mln drams (about 140 thousand US dollars) are allocated by the state budget for textbooks published for Diasporan Armenian schools.

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