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Tue 30 Jun, 2009 07:40 am
That we should live to see such things! Now even members of our Verkhovna Rada have to call in aid of UNO, UNESCO and Council of Europe! They have recognized that current Ukrainian leadership continues to pursue really discriminatory policy in relation to such national minorities of this country as ethnic Russians, Hungarians, Romanians and others. See for yourself! During the last 16 years more than 3 thousands of national schools closed in Ukraine. National minorities’ languages are fully ousted from the fields of science, high education, public administration, medicine and even mass media. All this makes life of national minorities into the place below in Ukraine now!
Next year due to the order of Ukrainian Minister of Education and Science those children, who are studying Tartarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish or Russian languages in schools, will have to take external testing to the local institutes exclusively in Ukrainian language! This is cynical and blatant violation of human rights in Ukraine, isn’t this?
You see, the total number of such pupils comes to 500 thousands pupils in Ukraine! And such criminal attempt of deprivation of our children’s right to education on linguistic grounds turns now into coordinated state’s policy of ethnocide against linguistic minorities in Ukraine.
Thus, it is high time for international organizations to take measures of international influence on current Ukrainian government with the aim to bring its national policy in the line with Ukraine’s obligations in the sphere of human rights and democratic principles of law.
I probably won't live to see such things.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to post that in Ukrainian.
I'm rushin to the Ukraine right now.
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
They Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu Hey Hu, hey, ah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR
I always wondered if they played ukelele in Ukraine.
They do, but they call it a balalaika.
Many countries have an official language that is the only one permissible for official purposes, such as ballots or government-administered tests. Why shouldn't a nation have an official language? You also fail to acknowledge the history of ethnocide that took place in Ukraine. Both Russians and Poles made an effort to eliminate the Ukrainian language, and not simply by banning it from schools. They banned publications in the Ukrainian language, and they violently oppressed Ukrainian speakers. If the Ukrainian government censored Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Tatarian, or Romanian publications, I would agree with you. But the Ukrainian government is taking steps to restore its heritage after centuries of brutal occupation, principally by Russia, including decades of rule by the barbaric Soviets.