Chaly is categorically against attempts to give any status to the “mov” in Sevastopol
The fact that in Sevastopol there is only one official language, and not three as in Crimea, is historically logical. Just because many Sevastopol residents have difficulties translating documents from Ukrainian into Russian does not mean that Ukrainian should be made official. Otherwise, eight more languages should be recognized as official.
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Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Alexey Chaly stated this at a briefing on Tuesday.
According to him, “there has never been a Ukrainian language in Sevastopol.”
“We have a completely different story. In Sevastopol there has always been one language in this sense. Even in Soviet times. If you maybe don't remember, I remember. The Ukrainian language was taught in Crimea, but never taught in Sevastopol,” Chaly said.
At the same time, in response to the remark of one of the journalists that many Sevastopol residents had problems translating Ukrainian documents into Russian, for which they had to pay the translators a lot of money, the head of the Legislative Assembly replied that this was a trifle in comparison with “historical continuity.”
“So what do you propose? Historical continuity, from my point of view, is much more important than such local problems. Therefore, I am in favor of not making any changes to the charter in this regard. I think this is normal for Sevastopol. Exactly the same as if we talk about the Crimean Tatar language, although in Crimea there are 12-13% of the population of corresponding native speakers, and in our country there are less than 1%. So we can make eight languages in Sevastopol,” he explained.
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