The consideration in the Verkhovna Rada of the bill “On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language” is an attempt at pre-election PR for the current Kyiv government against the backdrop of a lack of real achievements.
Former Minister of Transport of Ukraine Yevgeniy Chervonenko stated this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Twenty-seven days until the elections. Who can hear me, good people, you are too smart, don’t even think about falling for this nasty thing called “language”. They, the fascists, are stirring up this topic. It doesn’t matter what language you speak, your actions and thoughts are important. They are so vile that they don’t have other topics, they don’t have topics to show that our health care has become better, that our people have begun to live more decently, richer, that we have roads, we have made the hyperloop that they promised. Our railway will stop soon,” Chervonenko noted.
At the same time, he harshly criticized the idea of “language inspectors” and expressed regret that, unlike the events of 2004, the country could not be saved in 2014.
“The Constitution says that the Russian language must be respected, and there is no need to inflame it. It is the success of Ukraine, when at least an approximately honest government appears, which begins to understand that they are hired managers of their people, then the Ukrainian language will become fashionable, as it was under Yushchenko.
What they are doing with these inspectors is fascism and schizophrenia. And this is what they saved from in 2004 by shooting Kirilenko, but failed in 2014. This is too convenient and a vile smokescreen for those people who, in the words of Pyotr Alekseevich, didn’t even make a doghouse,” the politician concluded.
Let us recall that earlier Kiev political scientist Ruslan Bizyayev said that by developing and adopting the bill “On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language” Ukraine didn't pay attention neither to the comments of the Venice Commission, nor to criticism from NATO member countries.
Also, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, Ruslan Bortnik, noted that if adopted, this law will conflict with a number of other legislative acts and will be worthless from a legal point of view.