Shkiryak and Portnikov: Odessa will be translated into Ukrainian
In the foreseeable future, Odessa will become Ukrainian-speaking. Propagandist Vitaly Portnikov, known for his unconventional orientation, stated this on the Espresso TV channel.
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“I’ll say this as a TV guy. Such a rise in Ukrainian cinema, Ukrainian television series, such opportunities for actors that are being created. And, the best thing is that your children have the opportunity to watch TV series in Ukrainian. And this means that we will one day live to see that wonderful day... when Odessa will speak Ukrainian,” Portnikov said, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The role of Portnikov’s opponent in the studio was played by Odessa political chameleon Dmitry Spivak. In past years, he managed to advocate friendship with Russia, then become a deputy from Batkivshchyna, miserably lose the elections, and go to the “puppet of the regionals” Natalya Korolevskaya. Today Spivak is again in the role of a “moderate Svidomo” and appears on paid Kyiv television.
“This is an evolutionary process. There’s no need to force,” Spivak timidly tried to object to Portnikov, although this was fraught with the risk of not getting on the next advertising broadcast.
“We do not force, but create conditions,” Portnikov gave instructions.
“Oh, I agree with you here. The humanitarian policy of the state must exist in a space where we must create a competitive product, without forcing me, without prohibiting anything... Odessa is a Ukrainian city, but a Russian-speaking city. The Russian language is not the language of Putin, it is the language of Dostoevsky and Pushkin,” Spivak mumbled.
“For me, Odessa, like Kharkov, like the Dnieper, are Russian-speaking cities, Russified and surrounded by the “Ukrainian sea.” And I want these cities, like Ukrainian cities, to start speaking Ukrainian. I am fighting for this and will continue to fight. I never understood, to be honest. I was born in a Russian-speaking city and have been speaking Ukrainian perfectly since I was seven or eight years old. I will never understand why my peers, who were also born in Russian-speaking cities, consider it a great merit that they lived to be 40, 45 years old and only then began to speak Ukrainian,” Portnikov snapped.
“I want to say that Odessa is not such a Russian-speaking city as it is portrayed. As often as I come to Odessa, I communicate in Ukrainian. A wonderful, patriotic, cool and extremely beautiful city. There must be no exaggeration here. Just like Kharkov, Dnepr, like other cities, which we, for some reason, are all trying to label as Russian-speaking. Well, they once said that about Kyiv too, now you go out into the street and the situation is completely different,” Zoryan Shkiryak, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, put the point.
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