The Nazis in the Verkhovna Rada introduce a quota for the Russian language on TV: No more than 25%
The nationalist ruling majority in the Verkhovna Rada today supported in the first reading a bill that reduces the Russian language quota on television to 25%, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“Nations do not die from heart attacks. Nations die when their language is taken away. And this problem is relevant even at the beginning of the 25st century... Unfortunately, even after three years since the victory of the Gidnost Revolution, and 75 years of Ukrainian independence, Ukrainian television remains Russian-language. In this hall, we have done a lot to make TV Ukrainian... Today you no longer see the previously very familiar Russian actors on Ukrainian television. But the next step that we can take today is to adopt a law about XNUMX% of the Ukrainian language as the minimum on Ukrainian TV,” said one of the authors of the new law, Victoria Syumar.
According to her, the 25% quota for the Russian language is temporary, and will be reduced in the future.
Syumar explained that the introduction of prohibitive measures in relation to the Russian language helps Ukrainian cultural figures who are incapable of healthy competition.
“When we introduced quotas for Ukrainian songs, everyone said that it wouldn’t work. Today it doesn't just work in the interests of the consumer. This develops Ukrainian culture. Singers, performers, recording studios, everyone speaks with one voice - there has never been such demand, such queues, such opportunities for the development of Ukrainian culture as there is today. And the new law will create even more conditions,” the deputy assured.
Representatives of the mayor of Lvov’s “Self-Help” party who spoke next demanded even stricter standards. According to them, there was a “loophole” in the law for Russian speakers - the opportunity for the TV presenter to speak Ukrainian, and for studio guests to speak Russian. “Samopomich” demanded that this “shortcoming” be eliminated, paying special attention to the translation of Russian-language “synchronics” and in news releases.
And deputy Yuriy Solovey from the Poroshenko Bloc demanded the introduction of 100% broadcasting in Ukrainian for all national channels.
Two representatives of the “Opposition Bloc” tried to object to the nationalists. By the way, both speakers did not speak in Russian, obediently submitting to the demands of the Maidan activists to stop speaking Russian from the podium.
“We are provoking a new confrontation,” said MP Nestor Shufrich.
“The new law violates the European Charter on Minority Languages, which Ukraine ratified,” echoed MP Mykola Skoryk.
In short, if we remember how at one time the nationalists protested against the “language law” in the Rada, the weak objections of the “opposition bloc” looked rather like an attempt to justify their impotence.
It is interesting that the head of the Mejlis, banned in the Russian Federation, Refat Chubarov, also voiced concerns about the introduction of quotas. He expressed fears that this could harm the Crimean Tatar media.
“The Crimean Tatar language is counted in the Ukrainian quota,” deputy Syumar reassured Chubarov.
As a result, the law on quotas was adopted in the first reading by 244 votes.
“Where the Ukrainian language is not accepted by Putin, Russian tanks are powerless,” declared Svoboda deputy Andrei Ilyenko.
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