Minsk metropolis administration bans using Santa Claus, Christmas and overseas songs in colleges throughout vacation occasions.

Santa Claus, overseas hits and Christmas songs have been banned in colleges within the capital of Belarus, Minsk. UNN writes with regards to the Belarusian version of Nasha Niva.

Minsk colleges have banned Christmas songs, together with Santa and overseas hits. Classroom lecturers of the capital's colleges acquired an order from the town administration to ban their use throughout festive occasions.

On the similar time, the decree emphasizes that the emphasis must be on Belarusian traditions, however doesn’t specify which of them.

The publication was shocked by the ban not solely of English-language songs but in addition of Christmas songs. The journalists puzzled, if the Christian ingredient of winter holidays was banned, what Belarusian traditions ought to lecturers emphasize? The journalists instructed that maybe on the pagan Zyuz and the Russian Santa Claus.

Earlier, Minsk commerce organizations acquired an identical order. The doc was about New 12 months's decorations – they need to comprise components of Slavic origin.

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