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<h1 class="gmail-post-title">Russian language loses its regional status in Mykolaiv region</h1>
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<p>Mykolaiv
District Administrative Court has satisfied a lawsuit lodged by the
regional prosecutor’s office to invalidate the decision made by Mykolaiv
Regional Council in 2012 to grant Russian the status of a regional
language.</p>
<p>“Mykolaiv District Administrative Court satisfied a lawsuit filed by
the first deputy prosecutor of Mykolaiv region on recognizing as
unlawful and invalid the Mykolaiv Regional Council decision No. 4 of
September 7, 2012, on the implementation of the requirements of the law
of Ukraine on the foundations of the state language policy in Mykolaiv
region,” the press service of the prosecutor’s office reported on July
31.</p>
<p>The regional prosecutor’s office recalled that by its decision the
regional council recognized in 2012 that in Mykolaiv region, along with
Ukrainian as a state language, Russian is used as a regional language,
and measures aimed at using regional languages are applied to it.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in February
this year recognized this law as being not in accordance with the main
law of the country, and the decisions and conclusions of the
Constitutional Court are binding and final. In accordance with Article
10 of the Constitution of Ukraine, Ukrainian is the state language in
Ukraine.</p>
<p>“Since the regional council did not take measures independently to
bring the decision into line with the current legislation, the first
deputy regional prosecutor appealed to the court to invalidate the
decision of the regional council to grant Russian the status of a
regional language. The court agreed with the prosecutor’s arguments,
recognizing Mykolaiv Regional Council’s decision as unlawful and
invalid,” the report says.</p></div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<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" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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