[lg policy] 3 new messages on Ukraine language policy

[Harold Schiffman]

*Language* law: liberal rhetoric, radical
agenda<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/language-law-liberal-rhetoric-radical-agenda-311915.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATABOAFAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEvVwFnkTIEPDombhSHA8udvNlZ1Q>
Kyiv Post
With its new law on state *language policy*, the pro-presidential Party of
Regions (PR) has cloaked a radical effort to redefine the basis of
Ukrainian statehood and society under the guise of human-rights concerns.
Although it has so far attracted *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/language-law-liberal-rhetoric-radical-agenda-311915.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjABOAFAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNH28SMSdyNg9wCyzn3RsafNK6lMTg><http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/language-law-liberal-rhetoric-radical-agenda-311915.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAjABOAFAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEvVwFnkTIEPDombhSHA8udvNlZ1Q>
Kyiv Post<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/language-law-liberal-rhetoric-radical-agenda-311915.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAzABOAFAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEvVwFnkTIEPDombhSHA8udvNlZ1Q>Yanukovych
speaks for improvement of *language*
law<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/115018/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATACOAJAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNE5eMjEvbZbqTfSQsDqpIet5KwtuQ>
Interfax
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has spoken again for the need to
improve the law on the principles of the state *language policy*. "I do not
agree that this law has weakened the Ukrainian language. I think that the
shortcomings that have been present in *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/115018/%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjACOAJAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEJb9imGfAYP0r8Ugic6NW0i_5OYA><http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/115018/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAjACOAJAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNE5eMjEvbZbqTfSQsDqpIet5KwtuQ>
Interfax<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/115018/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAzACOAJAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNE5eMjEvbZbqTfSQsDqpIet5KwtuQ>
*Language* law implemented in
Yalta<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/22/112630.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATADOANAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEa_ItG-YZH3pTHdKiE1ZyLhMqh5A>
ForUm
The document was adopted in accordance with the Article 10 of the
Constitution of Ukraine, the law of Ukraine on ratification of the European
Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the Article 7 of the law of
Ukraine on national *language policy* *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/22/112630.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjADOANAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNGZLSWtOYl_u75WXGR_gUXxibjpNw><http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/22/112630.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAjADOANAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEa_ItG-YZH3pTHdKiE1ZyLhMqh5A>
ForUm<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/22/112630.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAzADOANAkrfWgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=Z106XhXs_FE&usg=AFQjCNEa_ItG-YZH3pTHdKiE1ZyLhMqh5A>
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