The Music and Ballet School of Baghdad (

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, مدرسة بغداد للموسيقى و الباليه) was founded in

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in 1967. It was initially opened as part of

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's secularist cultural campaign. Teachers from the Bolshoi Theater in Russia came to Baghdad to teach. At present the teaching staff are fully Iraqi. In March 2016, the Associated Press reported that the school was facing financial difficulties owing to the government's budgetary crisis. According to the report, the Ministry of Culture had ordered the school to begin charging tuition.

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