<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-news-header" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Cabin,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><h1 class="gmail-news-caption" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.6rem;line-height:normal;font-family:Cabin;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(22,40,76)">Ukrainian parliament adopts law on state language</h1><div class="gmail-news-caption-description" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;margin:10px 0px">278 MPs supported the decision</div><div class="gmail-control-news-panel" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><span class="gmail-time" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(152,152,152);font-size:0.9rem;display:block">11:32, 25 April 2019</span><a class="gmail-readLater-null" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:rgb(22,40,76);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:3px;border-radius:3px"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-clock-o" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(211,49,45);margin:0px 5px"></span></a><div class="gmail-uSocial-Share" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px;width:auto;height:auto;min-height:0px"><div class="gmail-uscl-bar gmail-uscl-round-rect gmail-uscl-style1 gmail-uscl-absolute gmail-uscl-horizontal gmail-uscl-size24 gmail-uscl-eachCounter1 gmail-uscl-counter0 gmail-uscl-nomobile" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px;width:auto;height:auto;list-style:none;display:inline-block"><div class="gmail-uscl-list" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;border:0px;width:auto;height:auto;list-style:none;line-height:1;display:table;padding:0px;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-uscl-item" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:3px;margin:0px;border:0px;width:auto;height:auto;list-style:none;background:0px 0px;display:inline-block"><span title="Поделиться в Facebook" class="gmail-ico_uscl_soc gmail-ico_uscl gmail-ico_uscl-fb gmail-uscl-fb" style="box-sizing:border-box;speak:none;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:24px;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style:none;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);background:rgb(59,89,152);width:56px;height:24px;font-size:16px;border-radius:4px;font-family:uscl"><span class="gmail-uscl-each-counter" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:10px;outline:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.5);width:28px;height:24px;list-style:none;display:inline-block;line-height:inherit;float:left">8</span></span></div><div class="gmail-uscl-item" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:3px;margin:0px;border:0px;width:auto;height:auto;list-style:none;background:0px 0px;display:inline-block"><span title="Поделиться в undefined" class="gmail-ico_uscl_soc gmail-ico_uscl gmail-ico_uscl-gPlus gmail-uscl-gPlus" style="box-sizing:border-box;speak:none;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:24px;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style:none;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;color:rgb(255,255,255);background:rgb(220,78,65);width:56px;height:24px;font-size:16px;border-radius:4px;font-family:uscl"><span class="gmail-uscl-each-counter" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:middle;font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:10px;outline:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.5);width:28px;height:24px;list-style:none;display:inline-block;line-height:inherit;float:left">0</span></span></div><div class="gmail-uscl-item" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:3px;margin:0px;border:0px;width:auto;height:auto;list-style:none;background:0px 0px;display:inline-block"><span title="Поделитьс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itics/poroshenko-to-sign-decree-on-endorsing-status-of-ukrainian-language-26398.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(17,131,228);text-decoration-line:none">the status of Ukraine's state language will be endorsed</a> over the course of the next ten years when the government implements the respective program. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px">On February 28, 2018, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine produced a <a href="https://112.international/politics/constitutional-court-decides-on-kolesnychenko-kivalov-language-law-26087.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(17,131,228);text-decoration-line:none">ruling in regards to the law “On the principles of the state language policy”</a> #5029-VI (the so-called “Kolesnychenko-Kivalov” law).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px"></p><div class="gmail-article_attached gmail-acenter" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Related: </span><a href="https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/zelenskys-team-comments-draft-law-on-state-language-38382.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(17,131,228);text-decoration-line:none">Zelensky’s team comments draft law on state language</a></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px">The <a href="https://112.international/article/the-history-of-ukraines-language-legislation-13452.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4rem;color:rgb(17,131,228);text-decoration-line:none">Law "On the Principles of language policy"</a> was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada by MPs Vadym Kolesnichenko and Serhiy Kivalov. According to the law, the language of the Verkhovna Rada and acts of public authorities, is Ukrainian. When it comes to the language of elections, referendums, science, and education, the focus is on the human right to freely use any language.</p><div><br></div>-- <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>