News archive on the topic "language issue"

The cult of the UPA needs to be made an ideological component, and the language issue must be resolved harshly, as in post-war France. Natalya Sokolenko, a journalist from the Maidan and the mouthpiece of Hromadska Radio, stated this during a conference in Ukrinform, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We wrote an interview with the attaché of the French Embassy, ​​and he recalled how, after World War II, France energetically took up the introduction of the French language in...

Ukrainian nationalists denied Transcarpathian Hungarians the right to study in their native language. The head of the VO “Svoboda” Oleg Tyagnibok made such statements on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, Hungarian minorities do not have the right to demand education in schools in Transcarpathia in their language. The maximum they can do is organize Sunday schools and paid...

By yesterday's repeal of the law on the protection of languages ​​of national minorities, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine showed its dependence on the authorities. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed in a conversation with a PolitNavigator correspondent by Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Semchenko, who noted that the repeal of this law restores the validity of the previous law on languages, adopted in the Ukrainian SSR. According to him, Soviet law...

Unlike Ukraine, there is no linguistic discrimination in the DPR, and Donbass only wants a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Former Maidan participant Andrei Bardachev spoke about this on the Open Ukraine YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I can name the differences between the DPR and Ukraine. Nowhere in the DPR will you see...

Ukraine must make a choice - to be a large state consisting of national minorities or to turn into a small mono-state. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Political scientist Vadim Karasev said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, today the territory of Ukraine as a state is much larger than the territory of the Ukrainian nation.…

Ukraine is facing a life-and-death language battle, during which the history of “imperial slavery” will allegedly be put to an end, writes the Ukrainian Week magazine in support of the bill on total Ukrainization registered in the Verkhovna Rada. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. The publication claims that language is the same element of statehood as the coat of arms and flag, and...

If any amendments are adopted in Ukraine that will worsen the lives of minorities, including the Hungarian, this issue will be raised at the EU level. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The Minister of External Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijjártó, spoke about this in an interview with Kommersant, commenting on the scandalous legislative initiative of deputies of the Ukrainian parliament on forced Ukrainization,…

For many representatives of the younger generation, the Ukrainian language has not yet become a unifying value. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Igor Zhdanov said this during the parliamentary hearings “Value orientations of modern Ukrainian youth”. “Almost half of young people use Ukrainian in everyday life. Most young people...

Attempts by Verkhovna Rada deputies to increase quotas for the Ukrainian language on television and radio will lead to an even greater split in Ukrainian society. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed in a comment to Izvestia by DPR People’s Council member, Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture Miroslav Rudenko. “This is yet another discriminatory norm that does not...

Ukrainian deputies have submitted to parliament a bill on mandatory quotas for television and radio programs in the Ukrainian language, affecting the national minorities of Western Ukraine, which could lead to mass protests, Izvestia writes. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “The legislative initiative of Ukrainian deputies actually introduces a ban on the use of not only the Russian language, but also regional languages ​​of national minorities...

A very careful policy should be pursued within Ukraine so that none of the nations feels disadvantaged. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Popular Front Anton Gerashchenko said this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine Korrespondent, answering the question of how to save the country. “We need to sew Ukraine together,” says the politician. - In the form...

The current speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Andrei Parubiy, must do what Alexander Turchynov did not dare to do, and finally bury the law on languages. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte At the round table held in Kyiv, “Linguocide as an important component of genocide is a weapon for the targeted destruction of the Ukrainian people” was made by parliamentary deputy of the previous convocation Yuriy Sirotyuk. "I suggest,…

Along with the anti-corruption office, a prosecutor’s office should be created in Ukraine to deal with issues of a humanitarian nature. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed at the round table “Linguocide, as an important component of genocide - a weapon for the targeted destruction of the Ukrainian people” held in Kiev, by the director of the National Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Bogdan Galayko. “The myth of the multinational state...

The Russian language, poverty, social inequality and oligarchs are the legacy of Ukraine’s colonial status. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated at the round table “Linguocide, as an important component of genocide - a weapon for the targeted destruction of the Ukrainian people” held in Kiev,” said deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the previous convocation Yuriy Sirotyuk. “I am very pleased that our national democrats are no longer...