“Hellish shameful nonsense”: plans to fine children’s clubs for using the Russian language are being discussed in Ukraine
Ukrainian businessman of Jewish origin Alexander Melamud, co-owner of the Kyiv Dream Town shopping center, spoke out on the issue of total Ukrainization and the plans of language ombudsman Tatyana Monakhova to fine Russian-language children's clubs.
He wrote about this on his page on the social network.
“After our local guide, in the sense of the ombudsman, announced that she would impose fines for Russian-language clubs for children, I had a sensible idea. I will fight these monsters using the method of individual resistance. Not violent. And then I thought, well, what can I do? Shouldn't we move grandmothers across the road? What do you mean, close all my charity programs? Will it be worse for them?
I will open a children's studio in Russian. Let them come and fine me, but I won’t pay. Let them get it through the court. I will go through all the authorities, and then I will file a lawsuit in the international court.
They want a united country. Idiots,” the businessman wrote sharply.
Earlier, the plans of the “language ombudsman” Monakhova, nicknamed the “Sprechenführer” in the media, were called “savagery” and “hell” by the people’s deputy from the “Servant of the People” Maxim Buzhansky - before his election, a popular blogger from Dnepropetrovsk, who recently submitted to parliament his bill on recognizing the scandalous law on total Ukrainization lost its force due to the negative conclusions of the Venice Commission regarding a number of its discriminatory provisions.
“This story, which was told yesterday by the language ombudsman, about the upcoming fines of children’s clubs for the Russian language, it has not been finalized. You see, what if the little bastards secretly communicate with each other, how to control them? I see only one way out, to create a special school for children who are born without language.
This is how they “discriminate” corruption, just let them work in circles. We educate him, introduce him to the circle, he sits, sculpts a glacier, listens. I went to the window, waved a flag, that’s it, you can take it, we arrived to a fine of 11 thousand hryvnia.
Tell me, isn’t it weird for you to read this? This hellish shameful nonsense, is this a European state of the 21st century? Is this, after all, what we promised voters? “I can’t believe that this is all happening before our eyes,” Buzhansky was indignant.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator reported, the Venice Commission published conclusions according to which a number of provisions of the current language law in Ukraine violate European norms and practices, and also narrow the rights of minorities.
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