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Revision of laws on language, education and media under the pretext of European integration is unacceptable. Joint statement

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Noting the importance of Ukraine’s European integration and supporting efforts to start negotiations on Ukraine’s EU membership as soon as possible,
we, representatives of Ukrainian civic organizations and movements, consider it necessary to draw the attention of the Ukrainian authorities to the inadmissibility of carrying out any actions aimed at revising the language legislation and weakening the mechanisms for the protection of the state language under the pretext of European integration.

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Ukrainian consumers have the right be served in Ukrainian — activist

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Article by: Halyna Tereshchuk

For the past several years, Lviv native Sviatoslav Litynskyi, a programming instructor, has been defending the right of Ukrainian consumers to Ukrainian-language services and product labeling.

His successes include a Ukrainian passport without a Russian translation, Ukrainian-language bank receipts, the labeling of household appliances and electronic equipment in Ukrainian, and an apology from Minister Arsen Avakov for using Russian in speeches at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The civic activist uses courts to defend the rights of Ukrainian language consumers. And he wins most of his cases. Читати далі

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Yuri Shevchuk, Language and Media Scholar on Language policy in Ukraine

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What is the difference in terms of language situation between Ukraine, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada? Why should Ukrainian government take measures to implement nation-building language policy principles and cease the ongoing russification processes? What is the real idea behind the “protection of Russian-seaking Ukrainians”? Why in a country where 68% of inhabitants declare Ukrainian to be their mother language, Ukrainian is currrently almost absent in the strategic communication spheres like government, press and finances?

Watch the video to get the answers from Yuri Shevchuk, a Language and Media Scholar and lecturer at Columbia University. He is talking about language policy in Ukraine, asymmetric bilinguism, post-colonial identity and russification.

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Gradual russification continues in Ukraine

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The Ukrainian language has strengthened its positions only in certain areas – the results of an analytical review

Despite the Revolution of Dignity and the rise of patriotism in Ukraine, a process of gradual russification continues. These are the results of an analytical overview, “The State of the Ukrainian Language in Ukraine in 2014-2015”, which was published by the NGO movement “Prostir Svobody”. This document, presented in Kyiv on July 8, is based on data from government statistics, sociology and the movement’s own research, conducted by volunteers in all of Ukraine’s regions. Читати далі