[lg policy] bibitem: Language Policy in Ukraine: International Standards and Obligation, and Ukrainian Law and Legislation

[Harold Schiffman]

Language Policy in Ukraine: International Standards and Obligation,
and Ukrainian Law and Legislation

Bill Bowring
Birkbeck College - School of Law


March 31, 2011


Abstract:

Language policy in Ukraine has a political and historical context of
unique complexity, even when compared with other post-colonial
linguistic puzzles, for example those in Ireland, Spain or Turkey. As
Kulyk points out, the Soviet past is “… the only past common to all
Ukrainian regions, because it was only in the 1940s that they found
themselves in one polity after many centuries of divided existence.”
This Report does not seek to analyse the often heated politics of
post-Soviet Ukraine, which I have explored over the years in relation
to a number of issues, and which are analysed in this volume. It is of
course essential to consider law in its social and political context.
What follows is an attempt to analyse and evaluate existing and
proposed law and practice, and to make recommendations.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 30
Working Paper Series
Date posted: April 04, 2011


Bowring, Bill, Language Policy in Ukraine: International Standards and
Obligation, and Ukrainian Law and Legislation (March 31, 2011).

Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1800254



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