<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><h2>Rada abolishes law on minorities languages, including Russian, Soviet language law currently in effect</h2>
<em class="">24-02-2014 10:01</em>
<p><i>Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has abolished the law on
the foundations of the state language policy adopted on July 3, 2012.
A total of 232 MPs out of 334 voted for the abolition on February
23.Speaking in parliament, leader of the Batkivschyna faction Arseniy
Yatseniuk assured the Russian-speaking community in Ukraine that their
rights are safeguarded by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine. He also
stressed the need to develop a new law on state language policy
guidelines.
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After the abolition of the July 3 law, it is the language law of the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic dated 1989 that is currently in
effect in Ukraine.In July 2012 the Verkhovna Rada passed the language
law initiated by the Party of Regions. The law came into force on August
10, 2012. It permitted the use of two official languages in regions
where the size of an ethnic minority exceeds 10%.Russian was declared
the second official language in Odesa, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv,
Zaporizhia, Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk and Donetsk
regions.Hungarian, Moldovan and Rumanian were declared official
languages in several towns in the west of Ukraine.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/en/148/556919/">http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/en/148/556919/</a><br></p><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>
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