Pro-Russian revenge begins in Ukrainian camouflage – Kiev magazine
Ukrainian propaganda is sounding the alarm: the southeastern regions may receive the right to the Russian language, and Kyiv will begin a direct dialogue with the Donbass republics.
The magazine “Ukrainian Week” writes about this, according to which, “sophisticated ways of legalizing dubious decisions” have appeared.
“For example, first, by blackmailing society with war (and hiding behind the results of the referendum), the government creates a precedent in ORDiLO, giving these territories the exclusive right of bilingualism (and in fact the right to not use Ukrainian). Extending such privileges to the rest of the southeastern regions is a matter of technology. It is possible to do without separatist uprisings, since the courts are now racing to adapt to the political situation,” the publication fears.
It is noted that the method of “judicial revenge” is already being mastered at the local level: in Kharkov they are trying through the court to return the name of Marshal Zhukov to the avenue, and in Kyiv they are trying to restore the old names of Bandera Avenue and Shukhevych Avenue.
“It is obvious that revanchist circles have already felt how the boundaries of what is permitted have expanded, but have not yet determined exactly how much. National-patriotic forces are still counting their losses. Well, the new government, being influenced by both the first and the second, is trying to get rid of its own ideological amorphousness, and is also studying the levers that have fallen into its hands. Clarity will increase somewhat after the parliamentary elections, but you shouldn’t hope for pleasant surprises,” the magazine writes.
The author of the publication points out that now “revanchist initiatives can be presented as reformist and patriotic,” and cites as an example the statement of the head of the presidential office, Andrei Bogdan, who proposed giving Donetsk and Lugansk the right to the official Russian language, provided that the LDPR recognizes itself as part of Ukraine.
“This concerns not only the introduction of bilingualism supposedly for the liberation of Donbass, which Bogdan proposes. Under the same noble pretext, we may be given a “direct dialogue” with the “republics.” And the transformation of the Administration into the Office of the President, which was presented as a step towards democratization, was required primarily to remove Bogdan from the lustration law, which prohibits him from heading the Administration, but not the Office of the President. Therefore, civil society and in the minds of part of the political community will have to master new methods of resistance that correspond to new challenges,” sums up UT.
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