<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-no_name gmail-selectionShareable" style="background:none;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25.2px;text-align:left;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">Deputies in <a class="gmail-search" style="background:none;outline:0px;color:rgb(35,81,122);text-decoration:none" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_location=Ukraine">Ukraine</a> have backed a Bill to strengthen Ukrainian as its state language, prompting warnings from Moscow that the move could deepen a Kremlin-fomented conflict in the country’s mostly Russian-speaking east.</p><span style="font:400 16.8px/25.2px Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">

                
                
                            
                </span><p class="gmail-no_name gmail-selectionShareable" style="background:none;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25.2px;text-align:left;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">The Kiev parliament overwhelmingly approved the language Bill, a day after <a class="gmail-search" style="background:none;outline:0px;color:rgb(35,81,122);text-decoration:none" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_location=Russia">Russia</a> angered Ukraine and its western allies by offering fast-track citizenship to Ukrainians living in areas of the Donbas region held by Moscow-led separatists.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<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></div>