Ukrainian media and the Ministry of Education are lying that the Venice Commission supported the education law
The Venice Commission criticized the education law, which discriminates against national minorities, although the media and the Ministry of Education of Ukraine claim the opposite.
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Political analyst Dmitry Korneychuk stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our Ministry of Education announced to all the media that the Venice Commission took the side of Ukraine. All the government’s propaganda clearly worked on this topic, TV channels discussed it in this way. I went to one channel and said that we need to wait for the original document and read it. We waited. I respected him. Firstly, the Venice Commission actually tore Article Seven to smithereens. They did not say that it should be abolished, because that would be interference in sovereign policy; they do not do that. But on all other points they criticized the Ukrainian government. Firstly, the option that was allegedly discussed with representatives of minorities and the option that the Rada accepted do not coincide.
Secondly, the Venice Commission specified the fact that the seventh article of the education law discriminates against the Russian language. That is, it was not our opposition, not the Kremlin, but the Venice Commission that drew attention to this. And they wrote that they recommend amending the seventh article of the education law, so that subjects in secondary and primary schools will be taught not only in the languages of EU member states, but also in Russian. For (languages of) EU countries, they left teaching not only the language, but also subjects in this language; for the Russian language, they left teaching only the language, Russian language and literature. Teaching other subjects in Russian is prohibited.
Third. The Venice Commission recommended removing total Ukrainization from private schools - carry out your experiments in public schools. The Venice Commission recommended that the Ukrainian authorities continue the dialogue with representatives of national minorities and European partners who are lobbying their interests in order to expand the opportunity for national minorities to receive education in their language in the law on secondary education. That is, the Venice Commission draws attention to the fact that the law on education is a general declarative document, and Ukraine must adopt a new law on secondary education where it should be specified how many subjects can be taught in the language of national minorities, and do this as much as possible. In particular, this applies to the Russian language.
To summarize the decision of the Venice Commission, we can say that it actually criticized this provision of the law. So far there has only been Parubiy’s statement that Ukraine will not change anything. The rest of our high-ranking officials lay low. It is difficult to openly oppose the recommendations of the Venice Commission. The entire consolidated Europe is already behind it. Some adjustments will have to be made, but they will try to do this on the sly, so that Poroshenko’s electorate does not notice the loss of the fighter,” he said.
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