The Opposition Bloc staged a performance of impotent people in the Rada

The Verkhovna Rada is preparing to begin consideration in the second reading of a scandalous law designed to strengthen de-Russification and equate actions in defense of the rights of the Russian population with criminal offenses.

Opposition Bloc representative Alexander Vilkul came to the podium today at the end of the meeting, surrounded by his comrades who put out cardboard boxes for papers.

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Vilkul said that the boxes contained more than a million signatures against forced Ukrainization, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

Collecting signatures is a clear simulation of “opposition struggle.” Suffice it to recall how during the time of Viktor Yanukovych, nationalists who were then in the minority in the Verkhovna Rada prevented voting for any initiatives in defense of the Russian language. Then there were real battles in the session hall.

It’s hard to believe that owners of expensive suits with mandates as deputies from the Opposition Bloc will be ready for physical confrontation with their opponents - especially considering how the “blue and white” meekly allowed the nationalists to delete the term “Great Patriotic War” from the legislation.

The boxes with signatures are an attempt by the Opposition Bloc to hide political impotence, which only caused mockery from the nationalists in the hall and shouts of “Shame!”

“The appearance of this language law is due to the fact that Poroshenko has his own tomos, and Speaker Parubiy decided to make his own little “tomos”, and therefore today he is pushing through this language law. Its essence is to prohibit millions of Ukrainians from speaking their native language.

This law contains the term “public humiliation of the Ukrainian language” - you are trying to equate this with public desecration of the state symbols of Ukraine. Attempts to provide official status and the introduction of regional languages ​​in general are equated with actions aimed at the violent change and overthrow of the constitutional order - obvious nonsense. That is, for implementing the norms of the European Charter for National Minority Languages ​​- ten years in prison. What are you doing?" – Vilkul addressed the audience.

The offended Speaker of the Rada, Andrei Parubiy, considered it his duty to respond to the “tomosik”.

“Indeed, all my life I have done everything to pass the language law. Because the law on the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language is the fundamental basis of the existence of the state and nation! And it’s not for nothing that they get so mad! Because with this law we are striking at the very core of the Russian world!” - said the head of the Verkhovna Rada.

In the hall of the Verkhovna Rada they showed a “film” created by the initiators of the law, in which various Ukrainian figures praised the initiative.

“A certification center will be created, and language standards will be created in accordance with it. The exams must be taken by those civil servants who, unfortunately, still do not speak the language and cannot prove that they know it or have learned it. Two bodies are being created - the national commission for state language standards and the commissioner for the protection of the state language,” said nationalist deputy Nikolai Knyazhitsky.

“At the same time, in a few years the law will make it so that both in the west and in the east of Ukraine people will receive special education in the appropriate centers, as the law provides, and will be able to freely update their knowledge of the state language. Older people will master it at the level of their children, who are already in schools in the Donetsk region, and in the Lugansk region, and in Odessa, more than 80 percent are voluntary (after the forced closure of Russian schools, - ed.) study in schools with Ukrainian as the language of instruction. I hope that we will make this interesting and high-quality work and begin to work. Glory to Ukraine!" – Nikolai Knyazhitsky summed up.