[lg policy] Poroshenko Calls For Elimination of Russian Text Within Documents

[Fierman, William]

Poroshenko Calls For Elimination of Russian Text Within Documents
November 19, 2015
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the government to replace Russian-language text with English text in Ukrainian identification documents.
Poroshenko said on November 19 that the request came after a petition from Ukrainians demanding the change to documents that are known as internal passports.
Most internal passports in Ukraine currently carry text in Ukrainian and Russian.
A resident of the western city of Lviv, Svyatoslav Litynskiy, filed a lawsuit in early 2015 against a local passport agency, demanding an internal passport with text only in Ukrainian.
He won the case in May and received such a passport in August.
Ukrainian-Russian relations have hit historic lows since Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and began supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Based on reporting by UNIAN and TASS
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