Teachers In Tatarstan `Asked` To Sponsor WWII Events
(World News Russia)

Teachers and babysitters at schools and daycare centers in the town of Yelabuga in Russia´s oil-rich Tatarstan region are being asked to donate one-day`s salary to a foundation run by a local city councilman for events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. Oksana Yermakova, the head of an education watchdog in the town, showed RFE/RL what she says is a request from the Foundation for the Development of the Yelabuga Municipal Area asking teachers to donate money...