EAN: 9783838204970

LANGUAGE POLICY AND DISCOURSE ON LANGUAGES IN U...

The status of Ukrainian as the sole state language of Ukraine has been challenged by various
post-Soviet political forces since it was established in 1989 and enshrined in the Constitution
in 1996. Since President Viktor Yanukovych came to power in February 2010  the President and
the Party of Regions have put forward several initiatives to promote the Russian language at
the expense of Ukrainian as well as the minority languages of Ukraine. Paradoxically  their
most important instrument has been the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
However  the Russian language in Ukraine does not meet the criteria of a regional or minority
language according to the Charter nor do those politicians who struggle for the rights of the
native Russian language in the name of Russkiy mir represent the democratic values upon which
the Charter is built  as perfectly reflected by the history of the unconstitutional language
law of 2012.

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