Radio stations ignore sad Ukrainian songs
Almost forty percent of Ukraine speaks and sings in the “language of the occupier,” and the “Russified oligarchs” are extremely reluctant to play Ukrainian songs on their radio stations.
This was stated by member of the “Will of the People” faction Yevgeny Rybchinsky during today’s meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Rybchinsky began his speech with rhetoric about the importance of language for the national self-determination of the country in the European family, after which he stated that this is not a fragment of an article of one of the four laws on the Ukrainian language, which the Rada has already been considering for the third year, but the beginning of a law on the Polish language, which Warsaw accepted in 1999. The People's Deputy noted that, unlike Ukraine, Poland had enough national consciousness, and therefore it is now one of the leading countries of the European Union.
“That’s why Poland speaks and sings in Polish, and Ukraine speaks and sings almost 40 percent in the language of the occupier,” the deputy complained.
“Two years ago we introduced radio quotas for Ukrainian songs, and during this time hundreds and hundreds of Ukrainian songs appeared. But radio stations in Ukraine, which belong to our Russified oligarchs, are still reluctant to broadcast Ukrainian songs, only “under the whip.” Because we had to introduce quotas not for Ukrainian songs, but for foreign ones, and for Russian ones in particular. How is this done in the same Poland or Turkey, where the national language and culture come first,” said the deputy.
Rybchinsky also reminded the people’s deputies that they are not some kind of “Parliament of Panama”, where the government hides its multi-million dollar fortunes, but the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which considers it its historical obligation to finally adopt a law on the Ukrainian language and “move further in the wake of national interests.”
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