<div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>A vote by Ukraine’s Parliament to curtail the <br>Russian language’s role in its school curriculum, <br>one of a flurry of new laws adopted, also prompted <br>a similarly ominous warning from one of Russia’s <br>
deputy prime ministers, Dmitri O. Rogozin.<br> “The main enemy — the Russian language,” <br>he wrote on Twitter. “Then — all Russians <br>in Ukraine. Then — all who are for a union with Russia.”<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/world/europe/deeply-bound-to-ukraine-putin-watches-and-waits-for-next-move.html?hp&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/world/europe/deeply-bound-to-ukraine-putin-watches-and-waits-for-next-move.html?hp&_r=0</a><br>
<br></div>HS<br clear="all"><div><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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