Parubiy named the date of the final and irrevocable expulsion of the Russian language from Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada will consider the draft law on the Ukrainian language next plenary week (October 2-5), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Speaker of Parliament Andriy Parubiy said this in an interview with the Rada TV channel.
He recalled that the Constitutional Court abolished the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko language law, adopted during the time of Viktor Yanukovych in pursuance of the European Charter for Minority Languages and which guaranteed linguistic rights to Russians and other peoples living in Ukraine. Now the Rada is pushing through bills based on strict Ukrainization.
According to him, four language bills have now been registered in the Verkhovna Rada. “We must consider them and adopt the basic document,” Parubiy emphasized.
“On issues of Ukrainian identity, national memory and our future, the fight against mental de-occupation, the Ukrainian parliament of this convocation must take an unambiguous and clear position,” Parubiy said.
The bills registered in parliament consolidate the monopoly of the Ukrainian language in the state and public sectors, finally displacing Russian from these areas. According to all submitted documents, a civil servant is required to speak the Ukrainian language or improve his knowledge within six months from the beginning of the law. Judges and military personnel will be required to use the Ukrainian language, as follows from all projects.
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