Kiev TV calls for raising the status of the Russian language
Everything will get better in Ukraine when television becomes free from discrimination against the Russian language.
Ukrainian political scientist Andrei Ermolaev stated this on the Nash TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I believe that it is necessary to reconsider the strict rules by which the broadcasts of existing channels are now regulated. In fact, in everyday life we are at least bilingual; in everyday life we speak both Russian and Ukrainian.
It seems to me that if channels use at least bilingual communication as a norm, this will at least create a completely new atmosphere in society and there will be no division of channels into Ukrainian-language and Russian-language.
Perhaps it would be advisable, as a norm, to create conditions for the possibility of broadcasting news blocks in both Ukrainian and Russian,” the expert said.
The political scientist also noted that if Ukrainian television is made more free to use the Russian and Ukrainian languages, everything will fall into place in Ukraine.
“The creation of a separate Russian channel, while maintaining strict regulation of broadcasting in the Ukrainian language, will only worsen the division between Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking people.
I am not at all against the emergence of a Russian-language channel, but I believe that it is necessary to reconsider the overall broadcasting policy and make it softer, so that leading and talented journalists who are Russian-speaking in their education or in their product can implement it.
The broadcasts need to be made more free in terms of the use of the Ukrainian and Russian languages, then everything will fall into place,” Ermolaev summed up.
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