The Ministry of education of Ukraine has demanded from teachers to use to communicate during working hours only state language.
"The Ministry of education and science of Ukraine has sent to the heads of the regional departments/offices of education and all educational institutions of Ukraine the letter with the requirement not to violate the linguistic act and to apply (teaching and fellowship) in educational institutions national language ? Ukrainian" ? reported in a letter to the Ministry of education, published on the official Internet representation offices.
Ministry of education of Ukraine also gives recommendations to educational institutions to provide the increased level of official language proficiency of teachers. In addition, the document requires educational institutions to " strengthen the popularization of the Ukrainian language in the student and teaching environment." At the end of September the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine ordered its employees in the performance of official duties to speak only in Ukrainian language. Fresh Ukrainian authorities are trying to downplay the importance of the Russian language in Ukraine. October 9, the Ukrainian authorities had planned to remove from the station the signs in Russian. In April, Poroshenko tried to convince the people of Ukraine to teach English. First of Poroshenko supported to achieve 25 thousand Votes a petition initiative to be removed from Ukrainian passports the page, duplicating data of Residents in the Russian language, replacing it with a page in English. In may the people's deputies of Ukraine during the plenary meetings even staged a brawl near the rostrum in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada from-for performances in the Russian language. However, according to information received social research, the results of which were presented in June, Russian language called native 37% of Ukrainians.

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