[lg policy] 5 new messages about Ukraine language policy

[Harold Schiffman]

Ukraine's *language policy* law comes into
force<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://manager.rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/10/ukraines_language_policy_law_comes_into_force_17220.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAAOABAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNGeTesNQ14YAOmPOk3IH1VLWEoWDQ>
Russia Beyond The Headlines
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed the *language policy* bill
into law on August 8 and ordered the cabinet to form a working group in
charge of drawing up proposals to improve laws regulating the use of
languages in the country. The group *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://manager.rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/10/ukraines_language_policy_law_comes_into_force_17220.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjAAOABAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNF1e86wpNucmv8ilM-V6LSuYL90_Q>Odesa
City Council to hold extraordinary session on *language
policy*<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/odesa-city-council-to-hold-extraordinary-session-on-language-policy-311358.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATABOAFAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNEmTv8tC9jjoE8JSpuUkJkfC9TTcA>
Kyiv Post
Odesa City Council will hold an extraordinary session on *language
policy*in the city on Tuesday, August 14, according to the council's
media
liaisons department. The session will consider only one question – the
implementation of the provisions of the *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/odesa-city-council-to-hold-extraordinary-session-on-language-policy-311358.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjABOAFAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNGJhsVoL0ghsgnVWrWIfM0uq6k3Ew>
*Language* law comes into
force<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/10/112346.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATACOAJAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNGiqaogXas3Ul7RxmM_Hu34wU-Qbg>
ForUm
The law on principles of the state *language policy* providing the official
use of regional languages in the work of local governments if at least 10%
of language speakers live in the territory has come into force. The law is
published in the official *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/10/112346.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjACOAJAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNFvxVJJ49UjwbqkYWgt1ftOFzJk_A><http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/10/112346.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAjACOAJAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNGiqaogXas3Ul7RxmM_Hu34wU-Qbg>
ForUm<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://en.for-ua.com/news/2012/08/10/112346.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAzACOAJAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNGiqaogXas3Ul7RxmM_Hu34wU-Qbg>Court
in Kharkiv bans indefinite protest against "*language*
law"<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/court-in-kharkiv-bans-indefinite-protest-against-language-law-311336.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATADOANAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNHk6NphAiJyjUR6KMpe8rKHPvOlKA>
Kyiv Post
Kharkiv District Administrative Court has granted the City Council's
administrative suit and banned an indefinite protest against the Law on the
Principles of the State *Language Policy* which its organizers plan to hold
on Freedom Square on August 10.
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/court-in-kharkiv-bans-indefinite-protest-against-language-law-311336.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjADOANAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNGyIKY7NdAeg_53-FbxZLdw3PpU5g>Tongue
untied: Russian *language* gets official status in
Ukraine<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://rt.com/politics/russian-language-law-ukraine-343/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAEOARAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNEC0BpABkkYkeD85BhGC3IT8FUXkg>
RT
A new Ukrainian law has come into force granting the Russian language
official status in about a half of the country's regions and significantly
broadening the use of other minority languages. On Friday, the law on the
principles of the state *language* *...*
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»<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://news.google.com/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://rt.com/politics/russian-language-law-ukraine-343/%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dus&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoBjAEOARAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNHPS6y6SUOqcmjgqOpjotawSUecYA><http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://rt.com/politics/russian-language-law-ukraine-343/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoAjAEOARAl5OXgQVIAVAAWABiAmVu&cd=ropXvhxlDz8&usg=AFQjCNEC0BpABkkYkeD85BhGC3IT8FUXkg>
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