Lukashenka says he cleaned up school curriculum from "nationalist" writers

Talking to a group of Russian regional journalists on Friday in Minsk, Alexander Lukashenka said that he had ordered that "all the nationalists be removed from the school curriculum". He described them as the "so called writers", reports Belapan.  Lukashenka described the nationalism as "a terrible evil" and that he "started fighting nationalism long time ago". 

Lukashenka also said that "Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Lermontov and others were initially crossed from the school books", but he "restored them" in the school curriculum.