Urges to ban the Russian language have again been made in Azerbaijan.

The worker of the Nasimi Linguistic University at the country's Academy of Sciences, Jahid Ismayloglu, decided to do his bit, stating recently that the Russian sector in Azerbaijan must cease its existence, and the Russian language teaching should be made non-mandatory and elective, haqqin.az reports.

His arguments, as well as the ‘‘idea’’ itself, are not new. The hitherto unknown linguist, like all the previous opponents of the "great and powerful," claims that the Russian language is one of the empire's anachronisms for the Azerbaijanis, and therefore it is necessary to get rid of it as soon as possible.  

"We, Azeris, lived in the conditions of bilingualisms for many years, preferring Russian even to the detriment of our native tongue," Ismayiloglu noted. 

This linguist seriously thinks that the existence of the Russian sector in the country's education halts the development of the native Azerbaijani tongue, specifically preventing the appearance of new works of children's literature in native tongue.

And for this very reasons "the education in native tongue should become mandatory and non-elective in the Azerbaijani education, the Russian sector should be liquidated and Russian should be taught as a foreign language."

Otherwise, according to the linguist, there will be no incentive and demand for the development of the native tongue, and the evolution of the Azerbaijani language will finally slow down.