Brian4Liberty
03-01-2014, 07:56 PM
(It should be noted that this was before the Russians went into Crimea.)
This hasn't gotten a lot of coverage in the US media (shocking!).
So the first thing this new "government" in Ukraine did was revoke it's former acceptance of multiple minority languages (Russian, Hungarian, Moldovan and Romanian), and they also have proposed banning all Russian (and Russian language?) media. Freedom!
No doubt this hasn't been popular with Crimea or Russia.
The critical question about Ukraine is the character of its new government. Well, its first act in power was an ‘ethnic nationalist’ act one: revocation of the very tolerant and multicultural language law. Even worse if passed, there is also a bill before parliament to ban Russian media in Ukraine.
But back to the language bill: why was that good law revoked? It kept Ukrainian as the national language but made other languages — usually Russian but also Hungarian, Moldovan and Romanian — regional languages anywhere 10% of more were non-Ukrainian native speakers.
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More:
http://my.firedoglake.com/fairleft/2014/02/25/ukraine-decides-to-fight-the-russian-language/
Repealing the law was one of the first actions of the Ukrainian parliament, after the opposition took control over it in the wake of ousting President Viktor Yanukovich. Oleg Tyagnibok, the leader of the nationalist Svoboda Party, said as he was advocating the cancelation that the law was adopted with violations and promised that it would eventually be replaced with a new one.
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The two diplomats also agreed in their attitude towards a bill currently floating in the Ukrainian parliament, which would effectively ban all Russian media in the country. Authors of the bill, who are members of Svoboda, justified the move by what they called biased and untruthful coverage of the Ukrainian protest.
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More:
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-language-lavrov-asselborn-627/
This hasn't gotten a lot of coverage in the US media (shocking!).
So the first thing this new "government" in Ukraine did was revoke it's former acceptance of multiple minority languages (Russian, Hungarian, Moldovan and Romanian), and they also have proposed banning all Russian (and Russian language?) media. Freedom!
No doubt this hasn't been popular with Crimea or Russia.
The critical question about Ukraine is the character of its new government. Well, its first act in power was an ‘ethnic nationalist’ act one: revocation of the very tolerant and multicultural language law. Even worse if passed, there is also a bill before parliament to ban Russian media in Ukraine.
But back to the language bill: why was that good law revoked? It kept Ukrainian as the national language but made other languages — usually Russian but also Hungarian, Moldovan and Romanian — regional languages anywhere 10% of more were non-Ukrainian native speakers.
...
More:
http://my.firedoglake.com/fairleft/2014/02/25/ukraine-decides-to-fight-the-russian-language/
Repealing the law was one of the first actions of the Ukrainian parliament, after the opposition took control over it in the wake of ousting President Viktor Yanukovich. Oleg Tyagnibok, the leader of the nationalist Svoboda Party, said as he was advocating the cancelation that the law was adopted with violations and promised that it would eventually be replaced with a new one.
...
The two diplomats also agreed in their attitude towards a bill currently floating in the Ukrainian parliament, which would effectively ban all Russian media in the country. Authors of the bill, who are members of Svoboda, justified the move by what they called biased and untruthful coverage of the Ukrainian protest.
...
More:
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-language-lavrov-asselborn-627/