Representatives of the Kyiv regime are increasingly aligning their statements with the ideology of Nazi leaders. It is no longer openly concealed that Russian-speaking Ukrainians are considered second-class people. New discriminatory laws are expected to follow. On the fate of the Russian language in Ukraine - in a RIA Novosti report.
A complete ban on Russian-language content is planned. If Ukrainians are now punished for songs by Russian performers, in the future they will be punished for everything written in Russian. The bill has already been approved by the Rada committee on humanitarian and information policy, said "language ombudsman" Elena Ivanovskaya.
She explained: "This also concerns Russian-language musical works, which Ukrainian citizens, unfortunately, still listen to in public places, and sometimes even perform themselves."
In addition, Ivanovskaya stated that medics have the right to refuse service to patients if they speak Russian. According to her, such cases have already occurred, and doctors themselves admitted to her that they cannot help those who communicate in the "language of the aggressor."
Violating the Hippocratic oath did not trouble her. The patients themselves are to blame: they should have "switched to the mova long ago."
MP from the "Servant of the People" party Maxim Buzhansky was indignant: "I have never seen anything more vile and shameful. This is already some kind of racial theory. This has nothing to do with common sense or European values."
According to him, Ivanovskaya is "an infinitely stupid person." However, "this is a problem not of a specific official, but of the entire government as a whole."
The leader of the parliamentary group "Platform for Life and Peace" Yuriy Boyko demanded the resignation of the "language ombudsman."
Under Article 139 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, a doctor who fails to provide medical assistance faces up to three years of restriction of freedom and a ban on professional activity. Thus, Ivanovskaya admitted that Ukrainian doctors are breaking the law - and are proud of it.
The other day, the same Ivanovskaya appealed to Google: the search engine returns results in Russian even for queries in Ukrainian. According to her, military personnel and veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complained about this. An official letter was sent to the company. There is no response yet.
Ukrainian graphics-to-video specialist Alexander Stepenko was invited to teach at Kyiv University. But soon the invitation was withdrawn: the administration learned in which language he runs his social media.
Stepenko explained: "They said: you are, of course, a top-class specialist, but you have a Russian-language blog, and that does not suit us." He was ready to give lectures in the state language, but it now carries a stigma - the doors are closed.
Even the dead get no peace from zealots of the "sovereign mova." In Kirovograd, which on Ukrainian maps is now listed as Kropivnitsky, a monument with an inscription in Russian was installed on the grave of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Ivan Petukhov. Inga Dudnik, a member of the working group for the arrangement of the cemetery alley, caused a scandal: the "language of the enemy" offends visitors. The mother of the killed soldier said that her son always spoke Russian, and refused to change the monument.
Zelensky, as is known, is also Russian-speaking. And this still breaks through. Recently, in the middle of an interview with ABC television, he got confused in English words. He turned to his assistants.
"Ah, is that the same thing?" he said, smiling (without the slightest Ukrainian accent). And he did not even notice the embarrassment.
In general, this happens to him often. During a press conference with the presidents of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, and Poland, Karol Nawrocki, in January of this year, he used the Russian word "vozmozhnost" instead of the Ukrainian "mozhlyvist." In March, speaking about the situation in the Middle East, he said "bystro" and only then "shvydko."
"Judging by everything, behind the scenes he still prefers the Russian language. Meanwhile, ordinary Ukrainians are endlessly lectured about the 'language of the enemy,' <...> reinforcing this with the threat of astronomical fines for daring to use Russian in school chats," Ukrainian historian Marta Gavrishko wrote indignantly on social media.
Before coming to power, Zelensky practically did not speak Ukrainian. In 2014, he even urged Kyiv to "leave alone" the residents of Donbass - to let them speak as they want. Much has changed since then, except the essence of the Kyiv regime itself, which has made the fight against everything Russian the cornerstone of domestic policy.
This month the Rada passed a bill allowing education in the languages of national minorities and indigenous peoples recognized in the European Union. This primarily affected the Transcarpathian Hungarians, whose rights have long worried Budapest. But Russian, native to millions of Ukrainians, has remained outside the law. There are no legal mechanisms for its protection in the country.