[lg policy] Use of Russian language curtailed in Ukraine vote

[Harold Schiffman]

A vote by Ukraine's Parliament to curtail the
Russian language's role in its school curriculum,
one of a flurry of new laws adopted, also prompted
a similarly ominous warning from one of Russia's
deputy prime ministers, Dmitri O. Rogozin.
 "The main enemy -- the Russian language,"
he wrote on Twitter. "Then -- all Russians
in Ukraine. Then -- all who are for a union with Russia."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/world/europe/deeply-bound-to-ukraine-putin-watches-and-waits-for-next-move.html?hp&_r=0

HS

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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