News archive on the topic "Russian language ban"

In Estonia, the de-Russification of the population is reaching a new level, while Tallinn politicians cynically say that this is supposedly the will of the Russian-speaking citizens themselves. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “After the successful liquidation of higher education in the Russian language, signs of preparation for a transition to a completely...

Radical Ukrainian nationalists are threatening residents of the Kyiv-controlled part of the Luhansk region with reprisals for using the Russian language. The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, announced this at a briefing today, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent. In particular, he noted that the Kiev authorities are carrying out forcible Ukrainization of the Russian-speaking population in the controlled territory of Donbass. “According to local residents, in the Melovsky district...

The Lviv District Administrative Court lifted the moratorium on the public use of Russian-language cultural products in the Lviv region. This was reported by the executive committee of the public movement “Ukrainian Choice,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On January 16, 2018, the Lviv District Administrative Court fully satisfied the claim of the Public Movement “Ukrainian Choice – The Right of the People” and declared the decision of the Lviv Regional Council illegal and invalid...

Tonight, radicals from the neo-Nazi group C14 staged a pogrom in one of the establishments in Kremenchug. The radicals reported this on their telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The video that the Nazis attached to the recording shows so-called activists tearing down advertising signs written in Russian from the establishment. “This is what happens when you are not interested in the resolutions of the City Council...

The Ternopil regional council, which banned “Russian-language cultural products” in the region, became the third regional council in Ukraine to make a corresponding decision. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this in the article “In Kyiv they fear creeping federalization.” As the publication notes, when making decisions to ban Russian-language cultural products, regional councils took on functions that have always been considered the prerogative of the central government, and local deputies believe that such a right...

The “Prosecutor's Office of the Donetsk Region”, subordinate to Kyiv, demanded that the decision of the regional council of 2012 to assign the status of a regional language to the Russian language be cancelled. This was reported by the department's press service, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “The office of the regional prosecutor’s office has established that by decision of the Donetsk Regional Council dated August 16.08.2012, 6 No. 14 / 346-XNUMX “On the implementation of the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On the Fundamentals of State Language Policy” in the Donetsk Region”...

The Verkhovna Rada plans to “shut the mouth” of unwanted media with the help of a law according to which all television and radio broadcasting will be translated into Ukrainian. Thus, according to Verkhovna Rada deputy and former journalist Nikolai Knyazhitsky, TV channels aimed at Russian-speaking viewers will lose their audience. He stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “October, it seems on the 14th, begins...

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine, having repealed the law on the protection of languages ​​of national minorities, confirmed that the Ukrainian state is purposefully pursuing a discriminatory language policy. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The head of the Perspective information and analytical center, Pavel Rudyakov, said this at a press conference in Kiev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, recalling the UN declaration in defense of linguistic rights. “It turns out...

The Ukrainian authorities are trying to divert public attention from the law adopted in Poland, which provides for criminal liability for denying the crimes of Bandera, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The publication notes that the Polish authorities simply do not pay attention to the indignation of Kiev, and some Ukrainian experts suggest that the “Bandera” part of the law,…

Ukraine, having conceded to Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria on the issue of education in the languages ​​of national minorities, demonstrated that the main blow of the scandalous law is directed against Russian speakers. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova told reporters about this today, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. “The Kiev regime is trying to pretend that nothing is wrong...

Ukrainian radicals attacked the tents of the “Opposition Bloc” in Mariupol, where they were collecting signatures for the abolition of the scandalous education law and in support of the right to study in Russian. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ukrainian volunteer Liliya Ukrainskaya wrote about this on her page on one of the social networks, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

In the center of Mariupol (a city in the Donetsk region, controlled by Kyiv), a tent of the “Opposition Bloc” was erected in which they collected signatures against the law “On Education” adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. Ukrainian People's Deputy Alexey Bely was present at the place where signatures were collected. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported on the local channel Mariupolt TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Initiators...

In Europe, they notice the infringement of the rights of only citizens of EU member states in Ukraine. At the same time, no one says that the new law on education in its language norm deprives millions of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine of the right to education in their native language. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated on the ZIK TV channel by a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada...

The scandal with the law on education regarding the language of instruction for national minorities, in which Ukraine was immersed, led to the fact that Hungary managed to defend privileges for its compatriots. At the same time, discrimination will remain only among Russian-speaking children. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Journalist Vyacheslav Pikhovshek stated this on the NewsOne TV channel,…