The nationalist party "Freedom" holds a near constitutional court of Ukraine (CC) protest action which participants demand the abolition of the "language law" and opposed the "Russification"
in the action participated about 30 people. They demand the abolition of this law because I think, it's as if leads to the "Russification" of Ukraine. In General, the action takes place peacefully, no effective do not take stock of the protesters, RIA " Novosti ".
on Thursday, the COP proceeded to consideration of the constitutionality of the law of Ukraine " on principles of state language policy ". After a coup in Ukraine in 2014, the Verkhovna Rada invalidated the 2012 law on the principles of state language policy, which provided for the possibility of official use of 2 languages in 13 of 27 regions of the country. The decision of the Parliament on the abolition of the language law provoked unrest in the South and South-East of Ukraine, and at that time the acting President Oleksandr Turchynov refused to sign the Decision of Parliament. According to open sources, nearly 3 quarters of the residents of Donetsk region consider Russian their native language. Fifty-7 deputies of the Parliament in 2014 appealed to the constitutional court concerning the constitutionality of the language law. For example, They claim that the provisions of the act as if to create the rules for the dominance of regional languages on the Ukrainian government. Remember also, on 3 November the Ukrainian community in the Russian Federation spoke in support of the Russian language in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities are not limited to declared in the country de-communization, and try to belittle the importance of the Russian language in Ukraine, although not repeatedly stated that the Russian-speaking population should not be afraid of the policy of the new leadership. So, in October it was announced that in the next two months, with train stations in Ukraine will remove the signs in Russian. A similar resolution was approved in respect of airports.

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