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<h1 class="gmail-title gmail-single-title">Playing the card of the language
issue, the government divides the country and makes it impossible for
the reintegration of Donbass, — Viktor Medvedchuk</h1>
<div class="gmail-post-info"><span class="gmail-theauthor"><a href="https://sivpost.com/author/magictr/" title="Posts by magictr" rel="author">magictr</a></span> | <span class="gmail-thetime">October 4, 2018</span> | <span class="gmail-thecategory"><a href="https://sivpost.com/category/politic/" rel="category tag">Politic</a></span> | <span class="gmail-thecomment"><a href="https://sivpost.com/playing-the-card-of-the-language-issue-the-government-divides-the-country-and-makes-it-impossible-for-the-reintegration-of-donbass-viktor-medvedchuk/24509/#respond">No Comments</a></span></div>
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<p>The government tries to play a hallmark card language issue that
splits the country and, in fact, makes impossible the reintegration of
Donbass.</p>
<p>Commented on the adoption in the first reading the most radical
language of the bill, the party member “For life”, leader of “the
Ukrainian choice — the Right of the people” Viktor Medvedchuk.</p><div style="text-align:center;width:100%;height:auto;clear:none" class="gmail-google-auto-placed gmail-ap_container"><ins style="display:block;margin:auto;background-color:transparent" class="gmail-adsbygoogle gmail-adsbygoogle-noablate"><ins id="gmail-aswift_4_expand" style="display:inline-table;border:medium none;height:156px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:622px;background-color:transparent"><ins id="gmail-aswift_4_anchor" style="display:block;border:medium none;height:156px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:622px;background-color:transparent"></ins></ins></ins></div>
<p>“VR in the first reading (though only at the ninth attempt) supported
the draft law “On ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as the state
language”. Repeated attempts of the speaker to extend the controversial
bill showed that the much-vaunted parliamentary “European model” in
Ukraine is buried. Finally. In the fight four Patriotic projects won the
most radical (attribution brightest representatives of the “party of
war”), providing for mandatory use of the Ukrainian language in all
spheres of public life — from Parliament to transportation, from
medicine to Commerce, from service industry to sport…” — the politician
wrote in his blog.</p>
<p>The leader of “Ukrainian choice” also noted that strict compliance
with the standards of the state language, the bill proposes to establish
a National Commission standards of the state language and the
institution of the Commissioner for the protection of the state
language.</p>
<p>“The government is trying to drive people the idea that the Ukrainian
language needs protection (and this despite the fact that, according to
a recent survey by the Sociological group “Rating”, the theme of
protection of the Ukrainian language and culture… care as much as 4% of
Ukrainians)”, — said the leader of “Ukrainian choice”.</p>
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<p>V. Medvedchuk believes that the sad experience of making the
“language” article law “On education” our democratic government is so
learned nothing.</p>
<p>“Deputies neither then nor now was not embarrassed that their
legislative initiatives are openly discriminatory and violate the
Constitution and laws of Ukraine, as well as a number of international
legal documents,” he said.</p>
<p>At the same time the free development, use and protection of Russian,
other languages of national minorities in Ukraine is guaranteed not
only Ukrainian, but also international legal instruments, said V.
Medvedchuk.</p>
<p>Thus, article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine guarantees “free
development, use and protection of Russian, other languages of national
minorities”, as the Decision of the constitutional court concerning the
interpretation of this article, adopted on 14.12.1999 (No. 10-RP/99).</p>
<p>In addition, the bill contravenes the Declaration of rights of
nationalities of Ukraine (1991); the Law of Ukraine “On ratification of
the European Charter for regional or minority languages”; the Law “On
national minorities of Ukraine”; the framework Convention for the
protection of national minorities (ratified by Ukraine in 1997);
numerous recommendations of the Council of Europe language policy (e.g.,
“Access of minorities to higher education” (1998), “the Place of the
mother tongue in school education” (2006), etc.), the Hague
recommendations on the rights of national minorities on education (1996)
and others.</p>
<p>“The government tries to play a hallmark card language issue — an
issue that splits the country and, in fact, makes impossible the
reintegration of Donbass. Our eyes to the accompaniment of
pseudo-Patriotic slogans such as “cave nationalism” is strengthened in
Ukraine. Well how here not to recall the words of the singer Oleg
Skrypka about the language of the ghetto for Russian!” — concluded the
leader of “Ukrainian choice — the Right of the people”.</p></div></div></div></div>
<br clear="all"><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>