<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(89,88,87);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div class="gmail-col-md-10 gmail-col-md-push-1 gmail-news-description" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding:0px 0px 40px;float:left;width:833.328px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(217,221,226);margin-bottom:38px"><h1 class="gmail-ccm-block-page-attribute-display-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:2.4em;margin:0px 0px 30px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(16,79,153)"><span class="gmail-ccm-block-page-attribute-display-content" style="box-sizing:border-box">Comedian to be sworn in as Ukrainian presidentComedian to be sworn in as Ukrainian president</span></h1><b class="gmail-ccm-block-page-attribute-display-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-ccm-block-page-attribute-display-content" style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></b><div class="gmail-ccm-block-share-this-page" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px"><ul class="gmail-list-inline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:0px;list-style:none"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.budapesttimes.hu%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fcomedian-be-sworn-ukrainian-president" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,80,162);text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-facebook" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;font-family:FontAwesome;width:30px;height:30px;margin:0px 2px;text-align:center;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid rgb(132,128,132);color:rgb(132,128,132)"></span></a></li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px"><a href="https://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.budapesttimes.hu%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fcomedian-be-sworn-ukrainian-president" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,80,162);text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-twitter" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;font-family:FontAwesome;width:30px;height:30px;margin:0px 2px;text-align:center;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid rgb(132,128,132);color:rgb(132,128,132)"></span></a></li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini-true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.budapesttimes.hu%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fcomedian-be-sworn-ukrainian-president&title=Comedian+to+be+sworn+in+as+Ukrainian+president" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,80,162);text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-linkedin-square" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;font-family:FontAwesome;width:30px;height:30px;margin:0px 2px;text-align:center;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid rgb(132,128,132);color:rgb(132,128,132)"></span></a></li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px"><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.budapesttimes.hu%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fcomedian-be-sworn-ukrainian-president" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,80,162);text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-google-plus" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;font-family:FontAwesome;width:30px;height:30px;margin:0px 2px;text-align:center;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid rgb(132,128,132);color:rgb(132,128,132)"></span></a></li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,80,162)"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-print" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:28px;font-family:FontAwesome;width:30px;height:30px;margin:0px 2px;text-align:center;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid rgb(132,128,132);color:rgb(132,128,132)"></span></a></li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px"><a href="mailto:?body=Check%20out%20this%20article%20on%20Budapest%20Times%3A%0A%0AComedian%20to%20be%20sworn%20in%20as%20Ukrainian%20president%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.budapesttimes.hu%2F2019%2F05%2F21%2Fcomedian-be-sworn-ukrainian-president&subject=Thought%20you%27d%20enjoy%20this%20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ct with Russian-backed forces in the east of Ukraine. Zelensky has said he wants to "renew relations" with eastern Ukraine and start a "powerful information war to end the conflict".</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><img src="https://www.budapesttimes.hu/application/files/3115/5842/2561/ukraine_rebel_held_areas_mod.jpg" alt="#" id="gmail-image-marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 611.656px;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Fighting in the region has claimed about 13,000 lives since Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014. There have already been indications that Russian President Vladimir Putin will test the political tyro. Shortly after the election, Putin made it easier for those living in the separatist territories to obtain a Russian passport. The move was widely seen as a challenge to the new leader.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">In a response on Facebook, Zelensky's team labelled Russia <i style="box-sizing:border-box">"an aggressor state which wages war against Ukraine"</i> and called on the international community to provide <i style="box-sizing:border-box">"diplomatic pressure and the pressure of sanctions"</i>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(16,79,153);margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:1.125em">Statement by Embassy</h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">The Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary has issued the following explanation of a law that was adopted by Ukraine’s parliament and signed by outgoing President Petro Poroshenko on May 15, 2019.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(16,79,153);margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:1.125em">The Language Law: Myths and Reality</h4><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">On April 25, 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine "On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language". 278 Members of Parliament of Ukraine voted in favour of the draft law.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The law does not discriminate against the languages of national minorities and foreign languages in the territory of Ukraine. At the same time, the primary task of the Law is to eliminate the remnants of a discriminatory approach to the Ukrainian language, which is the legacy of the era of the Russian Empire and the USSR.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">In Russia, the law was described as the one prohibiting the Russian language</li></ul></div></div></div><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>