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December 8, 2014

Regular classrooms replaced with online distance-learning in war-hit eastern Ukraine

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by Balint Szlanko, The Associated Press

Like most children his age, Denis Akimov spends hours daily on his computer surfing the Internet. It isn’t just for fun. As schools are forced to limit operations in the conflict-battered eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, educators are turning to the Web to keep their charges learning. “It’s not comparable to normal school, because there is no proper atmosphere for studying,” said Akimov, 15, sitting in front of a laptop in the living room of his home. “Very often you get distracted because of all kinds of things, like websites.” Schools and kindergartens haven’t been spared death and destruction in the last seven months of fighting between government forces and Russian-backed separatists.

http://www.cp24.com/news/regular-classrooms-replaced-with-online-distance-learning-in-war-hit-eastern-ukraine-1.2126681

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