News archive on the topic "speech"

Changes to the law “On the State Language of the Russian Federation” were made today by the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The deputies commented on the parliament's decision, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We will get rid of cashbacks, billboards, sales,” said one of the authors of the bill, deputy Elena Yampolskaya. “This law finally speaks of the need to protect the purity and correctness of the Russian language. Sources for correct pronunciation will be dictionaries, reference books, which...

Former Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius said early this morning word for word what former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said at a meeting of the European Parliament Committee on International Affairs a few hours later. This happened on the air of the Belarusian YouTube channel OCP-TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is now a democratic revolution taking place in Belarus, not a geopolitical one,” Kubilius said. However, in…

On September 26, at the 74th UN General Assembly, Armenian Maidan Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gave an incendiary half-hour speech for the second time. He made his first speech from the high rostrum of the UN exactly a year ago, telling “urbi et orbi” about the difficult legacy he inherited from his anti-democratic predecessors, about the bad parliament that “does not reflect the needs and aspirations of the Armenian people”, about the “bloodless revolution” in...

If the head of the Servant of the People party, Dmitry Razumkov, if appointed speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, speaks Russian, he will break the law and cause discontent among the “Svidomo” deputies. Political scientist and nationalist Denis Bogush said this on air on the Pryamoy TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The consequences are bad. Firstly, he violates a bunch of laws, including the law on language.…

The oppression and destruction of the Russian language in Ukraine began from the moment of the declaration of “independence”, when all political forces unanimously adopted the Russophobic Constitution of the country. Donetsk sociologist Evgeniy Kopatko stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We lost the Russian language, it was being squeezed out. They shouted about this in Moscow, in the UN, in Europe, when it was suppressed in...

Calls by the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzi to members of the Security Council to give an impartial assessment of the Ukrainian law on “language”, which is destroying the Russian language in Ukraine, ran into a blank wall. During the two-hour meeting, the language issue faded into the background, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. “Our speech is not against Ukrainian, but in defense of Russian, which the Ukrainian government intends to eradicate using draconian methods...

Ukraine needs to rename the Russian language “Ruska movu”, leaving Russia the Russian language, and sign the Russian Federation as “Muscovy” on Ukrainian maps. Nikita Poturaev, adviser to Zelensky’s team on political issues, spoke about this on the YouTube channel “UKRLIFE”, as reported by the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”. At the same time, Poturaev, calling himself a philologist, remembered only one Russian dialect out of a large number of others, but...

The film about the Ukrainian dissident Vasily Stus will contain 6% Russian in order to demonstrate the “horrors” of Soviet “Russification”. Film producer and Russophobe Artyom Denisov spoke about this during a meeting of the Council for State Support of Cinematography of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Artyom Denisov, producer of the film “Forbidden,” dedicated to Vasily Stus. The question of increasing the timing, a little did not fit into the 100 minutes stated and...

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine for Information Policy Kirill Tymoshenko initiated an official investigation into the identity of certain fragments of President Vladimir Zelensky’s speech at a joint briefing with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and Petro Poroshenko’s speech at the congress of the European Solidarity party, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the Presidential Administration. “It has been previously established that employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine,...

Russia is abandoning major economic projects and is counting on replenishing its reserves to implement its growing geopolitical ambitions, including in Ukraine. This is how Bloomberg assessed the president’s future speech at the forum in St. Petersburg. Subscribe to PolitNavigator - Kyiv news on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Putin will not say a word about liberal reforms aimed at pulling Russia out of recession, reducing corruption or protecting property rights...