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                                                        <h1 class="gmail-title gmail-single-title">Balitchi said that the Russian language has never been a cause of conflict in Ukraine</h1>
                                                        
                                                        
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<p>Russian language never was the cause of the conflict in the Donbas 
and annexation of Crimea. This was stated by MP from the “Opposition 
bloc” Yevhen Balitsky, the TV channel of our website.</p>
<p>“Language was never the reason that began in the country. The cause 
was extremism, stupidity and inability to govern, to negotiate and 
compromise, on the basis of the situation in which the country was. 
Russian language in no way has anything to do with this”, – he stressed.</p>
<p>The MP said that in his native city of Melitopol, where 99% of the 
population speaks Russian, never had a problem with the language.</p>
<p>He believes that it is wrong if people are put in charge of 
“observers and spies” that will ensure that they spoke exclusively in 
Ukrainian, as suggested by one of the projects of the language law.</p>
<p>“The Constitution guaranteed us “freely spikelets ridnoyu movoyu.” 
The native language is the one which the person took possession of the 
first. For me it’s Russian. I recognize the Ukrainian state, this is not
 the topic of discussion… How we live on earth, if the observer… I am 
strongly against these laws aimed to split society,” said Balitsky.</p>
<p>He also noted that “the Russian language is now much more issues.” 
The MP believes that it is necessary to return to the so-called law of 
Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law “On principles of state language policy”, 
which was declared unconstitutional by the decision of the 
constitutional court in February 2018.</p></div></div></div></div>

<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" 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></div>