“Scoundrels and brainless scum!” – a Kyiv journalist rebelled against the language law
The law recently passed in the first reading restricting the rights of Russian speakers in Ukraine, will create serious restrictions on the work of private media.
Anton Podlutsky, a journalist and co-founder of the KievVlast portal, told the UkrlifeTV channel about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Moment one. A certain circulation of newspapers should be published in the Ukrainian language... I wonder why the authors of this disgusting thing and those who voted for it in the first reading and for the basis are getting into the pockets of those people who publish in districts, regions, and so on private newspapers? What the fuck? I simply have no other definition.
Do they want these newspapers to shut down? But many people in the east of Ukraine, in the south of Ukraine, where the Russophone population is concentrated, I remind you that we still speak Russian, speaking Russian and being an imperial are two different things.
So that all these newspapers are closed, the information field is cleared, because “a holy place is never empty,” so that all these niches are occupied by the projects of Kolomoisky, Akhmetov, Firtash, Pinchuk and local barons and bandits?
This will lead exactly to this: cleaning up the information space at the grassroots level,” the journalist said.
“The second point: online publications must have a start page in Ukrainian. A question for the same idiots who wrote this and who voted for it, yes, that’s what I call them. Have you considered how much it costs to redesign a website? How much does it cost to employ additional staff of editors? What economic impact will this Ukrainian-language version have for media owners?
It is with deep regret that I must state the negatives, because Ukrainian-language content in Ukraine is used by significantly fewer people than Russian-language content. And this is not a problem for media people, this is a problem for the state. These are the problems of the relevant ministries and language commissions, which have never brought the Ukrainian language into line with the norms of any developed language,” Podlutsky noted.
“Like the tomos and everything else, it’s all for elections... In fear, shock, horror, your electorate is better mobilized... By and large, this is a political move, because both the law on languages, and the second law on “NewsOne” and “ 112,” I don’t even want to comment on this, because from the point of view of the law and its application, this is complete nonsense. I’m just ashamed of my friends and lawyers with parliamentary badges who voted for this. This means that their brains are also completely rotten,” the journalist emphasized.
“I will give great pleasure to the campaigns of all the political clubs that participated in this process - the BPP, and Batkivshchyna, and Samopomich, and so on... The entire “dome” of the current one has shown itself to be scoundrels and brainless scum,” Podlutsky concluded.
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