DUSHANBE, February 11, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Russia has donated some 70,000 textbooks to Tajikistan for local schools, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).

The source at a MoE said the textbooks had bend delivered to Tajikistan in the framework of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia in the field of education and science under Russia’s federal program, Russian Language.

According to him, the textbooks will be distributed to all schools across the country.