In the Kharkov region, the Russian language was dealt a blow to the gut
Deputies of the Kharkov Regional Council canceled the regional status of the Russian language, making a corresponding decision at a session meeting on December 6, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Deputy of the regional council Dmitry Bulakh wrote about this on his page on the social network.
“Last week the regional council voted to reverse some of its previous decisions. Among them is one odious one. The 2012 decision on how and where the Russian language should be used. The decision to cancel was consolidated and three-quarters of all deputies, and even the majority of the Opposition Bloc and Revival factions, voted for it,” Bulakh wrote.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, deputies of the Kherson City Council on Friday, October 19, canceled the regional status of the Russian language in the region.
Let us recall that on July 3, 2012, the Rada adopted the Law on the Fundamentals of State Language Policy, authored by Kolesnichenko-Kivalov, which caused indignation among Ukrainizers and nationalists. This document, in accordance with European practice and EU norms, introduced the concept of “regional language” - a language that is traditionally used within a certain territory of a state by citizens of this state who constitute a group smaller than the rest of the population of this state and/or differs from the official language(s) of that state.
On February 24, 2014, parliament voted to repeal this law, and on February 28, 2018, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine declared it unconstitutional, violating the rights of millions of Russian-speaking citizens. Instead of the repealed law, the Rada adopted in the first reading a “draconian” nationalist language law, providing for the almost complete displacement of the Russian language from the public and partly from the private sphere of life in Ukraine.
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