Reuters: Ukraine passes language law, irritating president-elect and Russia
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine’s parliament approved a law on Thursday that grants special status to the Ukrainian language and makes it mandatory for public sector workers, a move Russia described as divisive and said discriminated against Russian-speakers.
The law, which obliges all citizens to know the Ukrainian language and makes it a mandatory requirement for civil servants, soldiers, doctors, and teachers, was championed by outgoing President Petro Poroshenko.
He is expected to sign it into law before he leaves office in coming weeks after losing re-election on Sunday to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an actor who mainly speaks Russian in public.
Ukrainian is the predominant language in western Ukraine, while Russian is predominant in much of the east. Both languages are spoken widely in the capital Kiev, and a large proportion of the population speaks both fluently.
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WNU Editor: This law is causing widespread anger and condemnation throughout much of Ukraine. The move to abolish Russian in schools is what is causing the most blow-back. Soon to be former ex-President Poroshenko pushed for this law when he was campaigning for the Presidency, and even though almost 75% of the electorate voted against him, he is still going to sign it into law. President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to abolish this legislation, but to do so can only happen after parliamentary elections later this year, and if his party wins a majority of seats. As it stands right now, the current parliament's approval rating is around 7% - 10%, and almost all of them will be turfed out later this year replaced by Zelenskiy supporters. But in Ukraine nothing is guaranteed, and there is now talk among parliamentarians to delay the election till next year.And as for Russia .... this feeds into the Kremlin narrative that the Ukraine government is inherently anti-Russian (which in my opinion they are).
I believe in a 1 country 1 language.
ReplyDeleteI also believe in not suppressing a language (which the French are very good at), so Russian should be taught in schools. Schools as I know them encourage or mandate kids to learn a 2nd language. Having that second language to be Russian in many schools would be a good thing.
In America it costs a lot to print everything up, have interpreters for, etc for multiple languages.
Trucker crashed in Denver on I 70. He claims his brakes failed. You can always run into the ditch and avoid others. Word on the street was that he had to have the Texas Driver test for the CDL read to him in Spanish; we shall see. This multi-lingual thing is working out real well.
This is dumb. Just hardens a significant portion of the population that already is alienated. They should make Ukraine more hospitable than Russia. How hard would that be.
ReplyDeleteThe Spanish speaking Cubans in Miami know they are Americans but I have no problem being the only English speaker in the bakery trying to order pastelitos de Guyana. Those are so good.
There is NO language requirement in the Constitution.
ReplyDeleteIf public accommodation discrimination is wrong, how can a person not discriminate, if they do not speak the language of the country?
ReplyDeleteOnce a shop owner speaks the language of the country and have that base covered, if they want to speak to customers in other languages that is their business.
" Anonymous said... There is NO language requirement in the Constitution."
ReplyDeleteYou hold onto that thought as you go bankrupt.
Bi-lingual education is already bankrupting cities and states.
This is sheer stupidity.
ReplyDeleteAntiTroll Quick, how many computer languages do you know?
ReplyDeleteBorders, Language, Culture... Like the Great Michael Savage says.. So important to the patriotic..
ReplyDeleteI know an ethnic. They are white and your typical puerile liberal would never consider a white person an ethnic. They are an American citizen born in the US and are culturally American. They are a little bit culturally the culture of their parents homeland. Literally the mother's tongue and father tongue is not English. So English is their second language although they have been speaking it since or before they left the home. So they know their mother's tongue quite well. When they said they were taking a language course in their 'native' language at uni, I questioned it. They said technical terms and business terms are not something you pick up in normal day to day discussions. That made sense.This ethnic was upgrading his knowledge of his mother tongue in order to prosper in international business. He had a head start, since he was bi-lingual. Kids should be encourage to be bi-lingual.
ReplyDeleteHowever a government should not have all it s documents in duplicate, triplicate or worse. There is a cost.
The is a cost and an opportunity cost to learning languages. If not, every computer programmer would learn them all. They would never be turned down for a job for not knowing a language.
There is a cost just holding things like inventory. We call it carrying cost.
A nation should have 1 official language. This doesn't mean that the citizens do not speak other language, but there needs to be 1 official language.
Borders, Language, Culture...
"this feeds into the Kremlin narrative that the Ukraine government is inherently anti-Russian (which in my opinion they are)."
ReplyDeleteCan you blame them? Ukraine is effectively at war with Russia and Russia annexed and took away Crimea from them.
Again - can you blame them?
I sure as hell can't. And I don't believe it's only the government that is anti-Russian either. I've a couple of Ukrainian friends who are staunch anti-Russian as a result of the current situation.
If you think a govt should have but one language, then make it a law...thus far, it is NOT a law in the US...now ask why we do not pass a law to make English our national language.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't you be "anti-Russian" as you after the Russian did what the did to the them. Take your blinders off.
ReplyDelete"now ask why we do not pass a law to make English our national language."
ReplyDeleteSimples
It was not necessary before the coming of "The New Left" People took it for granted.
After the coming of the New Left most Republican national leaders are surrender monkeys.
now ask why we do not pass a law to make English our national language.
Now, I ask you point blank, why you think we should or should not have such a national law.
Steve--
ReplyDeletewe do not now pass a law for one language because politicians do not want to lose potential Spanish votes...yes, both parties. We should have English as a legal language because all of our founding documents are in English...there, happy boy now? But we will NOT pass such a law. Too late. And please do not blame one or the other party. Both parties afraid to try to change the constitution for this issue.
You are full of crap. Hispanics are from Cuba (gop), Mexico, Central America, Spain etc and many of them are conservative.
ReplyDelete"The Democrat Party is the home of Hispanics, who are racist"
I blamed racists Hispanics not Hispanics who are not racists
There are many racist Hispanic groups
- Aztlan
- La Raza (The Race if you could not figure that one out_
- MEChA -
Fact: you blame the Democrats.
I do blame the Democrat Party. They are the party of Identity politics in general and support La Raza in particular.
PS: I will go further. Liberal politics such as The Democrat Party using identity politics as a weapon was responsible for the Christchurch Mosque massacre. That is correct. You heard that right Democrats and liberals the world over own it. They are the ones into identity politics and created the fertile ground for the identarian movement.
Plus the shooter was a communist, socialist, anarchist, eco-terrorists, you name it. Liberals are sloppy wet like that. They will identify as communist, anarchist and socialist moving from one one to the other and back again. It should come as a surprise that the shooter oscillated like an electron around an molecule between communism, socialism, and anarchism. The Left really has no legit structure so the adherent s bounce around like a fart in a hot skillet.
Oh and the shooter was anti-Christian on top of being an eco-terrorist and a Liberal/Leftist.
Yup, he was one of yours.
Add to it that he went to the anti-western and anti Christan garden spots of North Korea, Pakistan and other places, he is one of yours
You side did it and then we got billed for it in Sri Lanka. You are patting yourself on the back now with a shit eating grin.
the gop recently controlled both houses and the white house. they did nothing to begin to change the law...again, you are full of shit
ReplyDelete"the gop recently controlled both houses and the white house. they did nothing to begin to change the law...again, you are full of shit"
ReplyDeleteI wrote: "It is also the Republicans fault in a smaller measure"
I have written that 1.3rd, 1/2 or 2/3 rds of Republicans should go. Also, I believe that 90% to 100% of the Democrats should go. For some strange reason, you have a problem with that.
Obviously, you cannot read or your brain doesn't work because your bile is backed up so far that your eyes are green.
There is a schism between national level Republican leadership and the base. This was shown in 2007 when John McShame and GWB tried to pass amnesty. They could have got it done, except no wall had been built. The 1986 amnesty was passed and effective border control was not in place. The 2006 border Act was passed and after it is passed by Republicans, not enough wall went up soon enough to get people believing that if they pass amnesty the wall would still get built.
Republicans did pass the 2006 Border act. Then Nancy Pelousy, the person, who hires non-union cheap labor, and Barack Obama got into power and fucked over the @006 Border Act.
You also did not read the part where I called some deserved Republicans "surrender monkeys"
The Democrats are trying to, lie to us again.. they are saying we need a smart wall using technology. It was a dog of a Democrat, Janet Napolitano, that in 2011, who said a smart wall with electronics was infeasible, too expensive and could not be done. This gave Obama cover to cancel the wall. Some executive that turkey is. He was suppose to faithfully execute the law of the land "The 2006 Border Act" and he failed and maliciously so.
Democrats are counting on people being stupid, not being able to remember longer than 8 or 9 years, or sheeple.
You just suck at reading or maybe you are too much of a political hack.
Anon 5:!8, you should apologize to every man, woman and child that you meet for being a Democrat and not using the brains God gave you.
The battle of the Anons will go down in history. ASAPP
ReplyDeleteРоберт, как погода в Москве?
ReplyDeleteSpell check fail: Pastelitos de Guayaba
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