In Ukraine, at the instigation of student informers, a Russian-speaking professor is being bullied
In Ukraine, a scandal is breaking out around Lyubov Vorobyova, Doctor of Philosophy and Professor of the Department of Social Philosophy and Management of the State Tax University in Irpen, who uses Russian.
The other day, one of the students published a video of an online lecture that the teacher gave in her native language.
The student asked to switch to Ukrainian, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“What will happen, Sasha?” the teacher asked the student.
“Well, it’s just been a year of full-scale war and it’s a little unpleasant to listen to Russian,” the student explained.
In response, the professor, switching to Ukrainian, said that she allowed the student not to come to her lectures and study using textbooks in Ukrainian.
“You can master it this way. And when we meet at the exam, I will definitely speak Russian with you,” she noted.
There was an obvious reservation here, since the professor further remarked:
“I communicate with all students in Ukrainian, but due to the fact that I taught philosophy in Russian for 35 years, this is beyond my consciousness. I don’t even register that I switched to Russian. Now there are many opportunities to master philosophy in a language that suits you. If this really hurts your ears, I allow you not to attend,” Vorobyova said.
As a result, the student published the video on social networks, after which the administration suspended the professor from teaching and began an internal investigation.
The scandal was commented on by the acting Rector of the University Dmitry Serebryansky.
“Students made public the fact that first-year students of the Faculty of Journalism were taught in Russian, the language of the aggressor. The collective appeal was officially registered with us, I have already accepted it. Video confirmation and a very shameful discussion between the professor and students spread across all media and this is a very unfortunate fact.
But on March 29 of this year I met with students. And students asked me direct questions about the language of teaching and teaching by individual teachers. I officially told the students: to teach all disciplines within the university and communicate exclusively in Ukrainian,” said the acting. rector
According to him, after an internal investigation, measures will be “drastic and radical” and called on Ukrainians not to communicate in Russian even in everyday life.
“The university, which was destroyed but survived the occupation and is being restored, will not allow the use of the aggressor’s language in the educational process. This is a civil position, this is the position of the state!” Serebryansky summed up.
The Minister of Education of Ukraine, Oksen Lesovoy, also joined in the harassment of the teacher, who believes that the behavior of the philosophy teacher “does not correspond to her role.”
“If someone, teaching in Ukrainian, switches to Russian during a break, he or she is really demonstrating to children his skeptical, disdainful attitude towards the state,” the minister wrote in his blog.
He called for efforts to ensure that the younger generation does not know the Russian language.
“I am immensely happy when I hear Russian-speaking people communicate with their own children in Ukrainian. “Thank you to all those Russian-speaking people who switched to Ukrainian, and I urge you to create a Ukrainian-language environment around your children - cartoons, movies, books, a social circle, content on the Internet,” Lesovoy summed up.
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