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  2019/07/03 - 14:37 • Language, Op-ed, Ukraine

  Vitaly Portnikov: the Ukrainian language is Putin’s arch-enemy

  Without their language, the Ukrainian nation is transformed into a folksy misinterpretation – “khokhly” (хохли)*, whose only talents are dancing the Hopak before their “older brother” and making varenyky stuffed with...

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  2018/10/07 - 11:12 • Culture, Language, Ukraine

  Ukrainian writer & publisher: Language is the most important marker of national...

  By order of Moscow tsar Mikhail I, all copies of the Instructive Gospels by Kyryl Stavrovetsky were destroyed in 1627. Ukrainian texts were removed from all church books; it was prohibited to publish anything in Ukrainian. Under the reign...

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  2018/01/22 - 14:59 • Language, More, Ukraine

  Language bill must be approved to stop aggression against Ukrainian, says writer

  Yuriy Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and translator, believes that the attack on the Euromaidan activist is not the first example of discrimination against the Ukrainian language: “First, I’m struck by the fact that both...

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  2017/05/19 - 13:27 • Culture, Language, More, Ukraine

  Professor Michael Moser: Ukrainians should respect their language and culture

  Professor Moser talks about the current situation of Ukrainian studies, disciplines and centers in the West and East. – It’s quite telling to analyze the status of Ukrainian studies at various universities. In fact, there are very...

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• 2017/02/28 - 20:33 • Culture, Language, More, Ukraine

  Ukrainians re-discover their own language

  The extensive free course of Ukrainian teaches basic vocabulary as well as working Ukrainian for those who need it in their everyday work environment. The students are originally from Russia, others were born in Kyiv, but have been brought...

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  2017/02/22 - 13:36 • Culture, History, International, Language, More, Ukraine

  Russia’s war against the Ukrainian language

  The books confiscated from the Ukrainian Library will probably be taken to another location, which won’t be called “Ukrainian” (a dangerous word per se!), and will not resemble – at least provisionally – a cultural...

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  2017/02/10 - 18:22 • Culture, International, Language, More, Ukraine, War in the Donbas

  Expert: Russia willing to tolerate Ukrainians as “slightly different Russians”

  Teachers of Ukrainian language and literature who have remained in “DNR” controlled territories have been ordered to re-qualify their knowledge in Russian language and literature. They may refuse, but will have to find a new job....

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  2017/01/10 - 16:11 • Language, More

  Ukrainian politician: If we won’t speak Ukrainian, we will forever remain slaves...

  If the French were to listen to English music all day, Turkish people to Arabic songs, if Poles sang German songs for the New Year, and the Japanese chanted in Chinese, these countries and their peoples would soon cease to exist. But, in...

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  2016/11/27 - 23:01 • History, International, Language, Ukraine

  Historian Martyniuk: Ukrainian homes were massively occupied by Russian settlers

  – There were thousands and thousands of empty houses that had once belonged to Ukrainian families. Moscow’s strategy was simple: move Russian families to these homes and russify the eastern regions of Ukraine. That didn’t quite...

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  2016/11/09 - 20:05 • Culture, International, Language, More, Ukraine

  Kivalov-Kolesnichenko Language Law: Kremlin’s Trojan horse in Ukraine

  This law, passed with flagrant violations of Verkhovna Rada regulations, should be differently named, namely “On principles of granting the Russian language the status of official language” because that is, in fact its essence and...

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