Kiev journalist: Why are “the offspring of Dzhemilev and Jamala” better than Armenians or Rusyns?
Ukrainian nationalists, who are ousting the Russian language from TV and radio, are putting their allies from the Majlis, which is banned in the Russian Federation, in a privileged position, Kiev journalist Irina Gavrilova writes in her blog.
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“Now 75% of the broadcasting of central television channels is required to be carried out on voluminous, and not on powerful, especially in prime time. For the regions, this norm is 50%, but a separate share is prescribed for news: three quarters of the airwaves - only on Gvar. The same applies to cinema: films from any country made after 1991 must be broadcast exclusively in Ukrainian.
These measures should help repel aggression from you know who.
Is the Constitution being violated? Article 10, you say? Why is there some kind of page of the Basic Law when the enemy is at the doorstep? Not today or tomorrow it will be introduced, as they say. Therefore, it is possible to temporarily replace the guaranteed free development of the Russian language with punitive international measures.
I personally have only two questions about the law so far, with which the Rada will, without a doubt, replace both the Constitution and the European Language Charter. First: why are Tatars allowed, but Russian speakers not? Are Crimean Tatar citizens a privileged part of the “Ukrainian nation”, which should be given bonuses and profits in the linguistic sphere? Or are they not able to understand what the hosts of the country’s main broadcasters are chattering about from morning to night?
And how are the “offspring of Dzhemilev and Jamala” better than the Armenians or Rusyns, or Russians, who are obliged to watch and listen to broadcasts in Ukrainian from morning to night, and if they don’t do so, they automatically sign up as separatists and agents of the Kremlin.
Second: isn’t the adoption of the new law a rejection of European integration, the course towards which was proclaimed by the Maidan? After all, quotas for television and radio broadcasts openly contradict the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which Ukraine ratified in 2003 and on the basis of which a law on language policy was adopted in 2012,” the journalist writes.
She shares her observations that the Ukrainization of broadcasting leads to the rejection of citizens from Ukrainian-language media.
“As a matter of fact, an example of the Ukrainization of radio broadcasting is obvious: Vakarchuk makes even his fans sick, and Ivan Dorn’s hit “They Smash the Chicks” (not fake!) naturally makes you want to turn off the radio in the car forever. Many, by the way, do just that: modern media and information storage devices allow you to listen to what you want, and not what is forcibly imposed by deputies who go to the Rada in multi-colored socks - in order to express solidarity with patients suffering from Down's disease... Now they cannot be distinguished from each other,” Gavrilova comments sarcastically.
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