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<h1 class="gmail-newsTitle">Parliament passes bill on Ukrainian language at first reading</h1>
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04.10.2018 17:33
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<div class="gmail-newsHeading">The Verkhovna Rada has adopted at first
reading the bill No. 5670-d on ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as a
state language.</div>
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<p>The document proposes creating the national commission on state
language standards and the institution of the envoy for the protection
of the state language.</p>
<p>A total of 261 deputies supported this decision at a plenary meeting
of parliament on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.</p>
<p>While presenting the bill, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee
on Culture and Spirituality Mykola Kniazhytsky said that the committee
at a meeting on October 3 brought the document into line with the laws
passed after its registration, in particular, the laws on education and
on television and radio broadcasting. He read out a transcript of the
amendments to the bill, which were supported by deputies during the vote
for the bill.</p>
<p>On February 28, 2018, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine declared
unconstitutional the July 3, 2012 law on the principles of the state
language policy (the so-called law of Kolesnichenko-Kivalov) because of
violations of the procedure of its adoption by people's deputies. The
law, in particular, provided for the possibility of official
bilingualism in regions where the number of national minorities exceeded
10%.</p>
<p>The bill 5670-d on ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as a state
language was registered on June 9, 2017. The bill was supported by
Deputy Prime Ministers Pavlo Rozenko and Viacheslav Kyrylenko, Culture
Minister Yevhen Nyshchuk, and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy.</p></div></div></div></div>
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<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>