Poroshenko wants the language conflict that destroyed Ukraine to continue
There is not a single internal conflict in Ukraine.
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This strange idea was voiced by Ukrainian President Poroshenko in a television interview dedicated to the year of his presidency.
“We don’t have a single internal conflict,” Poroshenko said. “On the contrary, Ukraine has become united like never before.”
“I will do everything possible so that neither language, nor faith, nor land issues, nor NATO, nor any other issues split Ukraine,” the president promised.
In addition, Poroshenko promised that “The second language in schools and universities of Ukraine should be English, not Russian.”
Meanwhile, all sociological surveys indicate that the attitude of Ukrainian residents to the status of the Russian language and to the policy of joining NATO clearly divides the country into West and East.
As PolitNavigator reported, According to the results of a study conducted in March commissioned by several international companies and the Ukrainian “Rating”, 70-80% of residents of the south-east of Ukraine named Russian as their native language, and in the west 92-97% - Ukrainian. In Kharkov, 84% of residents speak Russian, but in Ternopil no one chose Russian as their native language.
The status of the Russian language became one of those issues that split the country a year ago and became the cause of the conflict in Donbass, which grew into a full-scale civil war. Nevertheless, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has repeatedly stated throughout the year that only the Ukrainian language will have the status of a state language in the country.
The other day at the award ceremony for the winners of the 15th International Ukrainian Language Competition named after P. Yatsyk, he once again emphasized that in Ukraine “there was and is, and will always be the only state language – our Ukrainian language.”
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