Lviv TV: Following Leps’ songs, Russian tanks will enter the city
The moratorium on broadcasting Russian-language songs in Ukrainian entertainment establishments needs to be transformed from a civil initiative into a full-fledged law.
This was stated on the NTA TV channel by Vladimir Zakharchuk, legal consultant of the Lviv karaoke club “Split”, where a language scandal broke out the other day, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
“Karaoke – music is ordered directly by the visitor. Now look, at the legislative level, what laws are there? And laws are those things that are mandatory for implementation in Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada states this. There is none of them! The moratorium is a recommendation that tells me to limit and ban Russian-language products.
But there is Article 24 of the Constitution of Ukraine. And in the case when a person turns to me and says that I want to sing a Russian song (my attitude towards the work of Leps and so on is my personal), I have no legal grounds to prohibit this. Because I, as the director of an institution, can be held criminally liable under Article 24 of the Constitution for discrimination on linguistic grounds.
Any lawyer can do this, write a statement of claim and, unfortunately, go all the way to the European court. If I had a law in my hands that would limit such things to me, then, of course, I would use the current legislation and could protect our club, us, from future problems,” Zakharchuk justified himself.
However, these explanations did not satisfy a member of the OUN Volunteer Movement banned in the Russian Federation, Ukrainian Nazi Anton Petrovsky, who insisted that at this rate Russian music would bring an “aggressor” to Lviv.
“There are more than a hundred thousand Russian troops on the border. When Russian troops enter the territory of Ukraine, the tourists will leave, but who will remain? There will be those who will resist. Therefore, we must pay attention to those who have a civic position, who will continue to resist these troops,” said the Ukrainian militant.
He developed his idea:
“I would like everyone to remember this - Russian troops come to where there is a Russian world, they come for their own. They say: we are coming to the territory where there is the Russian World, they consider these territories theirs. Why do we need to launch this Russian world through a Russian-language cultural product, so that the Russians say - here, in Lvov there is also a Russian world, and we will also come to Lvov? Why give them such an opportunity?” - Petrovsky was indignant.
We would like to remind you that previously a resident of Lviv, who started a language scandal in the Split club because of the music of the Russian singer Grigory Leps, he was kicked out onto the street.
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