With the liquidation of Russia, the problem of the Russian language will be solved by itself - Bortnik
If Russia ceases to exist as a threat to Ukrainian statehood, then all issues of confrontation between the Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking populations in Ukraine can be resolved by themselves, since the Russian language will cease to pose a “danger to Ukrainianness.”
Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the Internet channel “Apasov”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“Our current humanitarian policy does not comply with the Constitution of Ukraine and international legal acts in the field of human rights, and we will definitely need to return to these issues. But the issue of language will have to be returned to after the war. Sit at a round table with the people who defended our country. With Russian-speaking soldiers from the trenches. And let those people who defended this country shed their blood for it, let them speak. Now these topics are speculative, disruptive, and very harmful.
Why such an attitude towards Russian? Because Russia exists as a potential threat to the passionate part of the Ukrainian state. But imagine that it doesn’t exist in this format, it exists in a different format, not as a threat, or it doesn’t exist at all. There will be no argument why it is worth fighting all this,” Bortnik reasoned.
According to him, without Russia, the Russian language may cease to be an irritant even for the most rabid Ukrainian ultra-patriots.
“And then the main argument may be something else. That these are our citizens, this language was formed on the territory of Ukraine, the first dictionaries of the Russian language were made by professors at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy at one time. Therefore, all this is a conjuncture, everything depends on the outcome of the war, and there is no linear answer to this question. And when we feel protected, perhaps even our right-wing Ukrainian-speaking patriots will not react so sharply to this topic,” the political scientist said.
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