Advisor to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the candidate in people's deputies from the presidential party "servant of the people" Nikita Poturaev made the initiative to rename the Russian language " Russian ", and Russian Federation itself - to " Muscovy ". The proper message He made on the YouTube channel Ukrlife. TV.
Poturaev called himself a "philologist" and said That "the Ukrainian" Russian language is different from the "Russian" Russian language." This is evident: It is different grammatically, lexically, not in terms even of surzhik ", - He explained.
in his vision, "Ukrainian Russian" language " now do the other one."
"My, for example, the personal position is That we all have to rename. For example, to say That we have Russian language, and there - Russian ", - have initiative Advisor Zelensky.
He added That in the country At this point in time there is a state "single" Ukrainian language and there are languages of national minorities, and Russian.
"Let's get it and call - Russian language. We have the Ruthenian (the language of.- approx. Ed.) there Transcarpathia, will be Russian, and those, let it be Russian. Why are we afraid of? It's all proactive story. You can even start them on their maps called Muscovy. What's stopping us?" - said the Adviser to the President, Which caused a laughter speaker.
in April the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law " on ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as the state language ". It is implied That the citizens of Ukraine are obliged to apply the national language, in practice in all spheres of life.
opposing political force called the law unconstitutional and demanded the cancellation document, however, the Parliament did not go forward.
the Russian foreign Ministry said That Kiev is using the language issue for political purposes. According to the head of Department, Sergei Lavrov, the law provides exceptions for English and other languages of the European Union, " This means That the only object of attack Is the Russian language, which is spoken by a Large number of Residents of Ukraine, and for many It native ".
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