At a press conference in Kyiv, experts criticized decision adopted by the City Council in the first reading oblige all metropolitan sellers and service workers to speak with clients exclusively in Ukrainian.
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“It remains to introduce the position of Sprechenführers, who will go and throwing change at cashiers and sellers who do not speak Ukrainian. Fortunately, graphomaniac writers will come in handy to help. This is the case when an aggressive ten percent minority imposes its position on the 90 percent of a passive majority. On the other hand, all this is reaching such a stage of absurdity that the pendulum will inevitably go in the other direction. I have spoken about this more than once to those who call themselves patriots: “Guys, do you think about tomorrow? You are devaluing the values that you declare,” said Andrey Zolotarev, head of the Third Sector information and analytical center.
In his opinion, the current government, aware of its dubious legitimacy, is trying at any cost to provoke a degree of conflict, without which it will become clear that “a gang of marauders came to power through bloodshed, essentially turning into a liquidation commission of the state of Ukraine.”
In turn, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management Ruslan Bortnik, noting that the decision of the Kyiv City Council has no legal force, admitted that this will not at all reduce the degree of conflict around the scandalous language initiative.
“There will be groups, let’s call them Red Guards, that will start going around and endlessly provoking and putting pressure on people, creating waves of PR. No one can stop these people except us. We must understand this. If I see this, I intervene. Other normal people need to intervene and be sent to the law. If they don’t follow the law, send them to the Criminal Code and call the police. Article 161 of the Criminal Code establishes serious criminal penalties for inciting ethnic hatred, including on the basis of language. You just need to fight for it,” Bortnik offered his recipe.
As PolitNavigator reported, people in Ukraine are afraid. what is the next step of the government Russian language will be banned during sex.
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