Language Policy and Discourse on Languages in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych: (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Series)

Michael Moser

ISBN 10: 3838205073 / ISBN 13: 9783838205076

Editore: ibidem, 2013

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• Titolo: Language Policy and Discourse on Languages in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych: (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Series)
• Editore: ibidem
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3838205073
• ISBN 13: 9783838205076
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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The status of Ukrainian as the sole state language of Ukraine has been challenged by various post-Soviet political forces since it was established in 1989 and enshrined in the Constitution in 1996. Since President Viktor Yanukovych came to power in February 2010, the President and the Party of Regions have put forward several initiatives to promote the Russian language at the expense of Ukrainian as well as the minority languages of Ukraine. Paradoxically, their most important instrument has been the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. However, the Russian language in Ukraine does not meet the criteria of a regional or minority language according to the Charter nor do those politicians who struggle for the “rights of the native Russian language” in the name of Russkiy mir represent the democratic values upon which the Charter is built, as perfectly reflected by the history of the unconstitutional language law of 2012.