The People’s Assembly of Gagauzia adopted a law on the teaching of the Bases of the Orthodox Culture and Ethics. The informative note to the law says that this document aims to promote the studying of the historical and cultural patrimony of Gagauzia and the ethical and esthetical aspects of the Orthodox Church, to strengthen the moral values and the good manners, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a communiqué, the People’s Assembly says the law is intended to keep spirituality as one of the most important values of the Gagauz community. Doctor Habilitate and lecturer Victor Borshevich considers that namely Christianity allowed the Gagauzians to keep their ethnic identity during many centuries and establish their statehood in the form of an autonomous unit. Without these distinctive features, the Gagauz people would have become dissolved in the civilization of the Ottoman Empire, while its name would have remained only in the list of assimilated ethnical groups, said the lecturer. The members of the People’s Assembly said that the initiative of Anna Harlamenko, who heads the legislative body of Gagauzia, was passed unanimously with only one amendment. According to them, the Bases of the Orthodox Culture and Ethics should be initially an optional course and then become compulsory, when the school programs are adjusted. The subject will be taught in schools from September 1.