The minister said this when answering the question whether he supports the idea of developing the “Ukrainian Russian”.
The journalist clarified that the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov at the end of March said that his book written in the “Russian Slobozhansk” language.
In addition, on April 4, then still the President’s Speaker Julia Mendel spoke of the need to “say loudly that there is Ukrainian Russian in Ukraine”.
“I do not know scientific excursions into the history of what Ukrainian Russian or Slobozhansky is. There is the Ukrainian language, there is Russian, there is a surzhik,” Tkachenko stressed.
In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the only state language in Ukraine is Ukrainian. is he “fully protected “, and “everyone who raises the issue of language, nationality and church wants to temporarily” hyip “with great consequences for many people.”
Mendel’s statement was criticized by the language ombudsman Taras Kremen. According to him, it “has no prospects”According to the Constitution, the only state language in Ukraine is Ukrainian. Flint stressed that the protection of the language is also the protection of the national interests of Ukraine.
According to a survey conducted in February by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology and the sociological company SOCIS, 52.7% of Ukrainian citizens speak Ukrainian at home, 23.5% – in Russian, 22.5% – in these two languages, 1.2% – in another language.
In July 2019 in Ukraine the law came into force on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language. According to the law, the Ukrainian language is mandatory for use in state and local government bodies, as well as in public spheres of public life. From January 2021, all service providers, regardless of ownership, must serve consumers in Ukrainian, at the request of the client, another language can be used, acceptable to both parties. The law does not apply to the sphere of private communication and religious rituals.
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