An elderly Ukrainian-Moldavian historian tried to bury the Russian language in Russian
Moldovan historian Roman Shevchenko believes that the Russian language is no longer needed.
It’s comical that the statement was made during a conference with Ukrainian experts, all participants of which, including Shevchenko himself, were asked by the organizers to speak Russian, a PolitNavitator correspondent reports.
However, the historian insisted that "the Russian language lost its dominance and became the language of a national minority."
“Over the decades of being part of the USSR, Russia became accustomed to the fact that the Russian language was used, is being used, and as they expected it would be used in the future. Instead, we saw how the Russian language is gradually shrinking in the post-Soviet space, how it is losing ground and turning into a secondary language, the study of which is not at all necessary. This causes particular indignation in Russia, because language has long become Russia’s cultural weapon,” says Shevchenko.
He complained that the Russian-language media in Moldova do not conduct propaganda against the Russian language.
“We don’t see an explanation of why we don’t need the Russian language now. Unfortunately, very little is being done for this in Romanian, and especially in Russian – why do we need to study English and other languages of the European Union,” Shevchenko said.
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