The Ministry of culture of Ukraine together with the OSCE prepare changes in Ukrainian laws relating to policies concerning the national language, said, " Izvestia ", the OSCE high Commissioner on national minorities, Lamberto Zannier.
Zannier also criticized Kiev for " all of the problems about the use of the official language are settled quite tough - not through a system of incentives and rewards that we would like to observe, and through punishment." He drew attention that the law was passed without any consultation with the commissioners of national minorities.
in may who was then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the law " on ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as the state language ", which predusmatrivaet use in practice in all spheres of life in Ukrainian language only. Exceptions are made only for social and religious ceremonies.
the Russian foreign Ministry told that the law provides exceptions for English and other languages of the European Union, " this means that the only object of attack is Russian, which is spoken by a Large number of Residents of Ukraine, and for many It native ".
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