A position of Ukrainian language in 2012 or how ridiculous claims „Banned russian language” are. And why you shouldn’t judge Ukrainians which speak up absolutely against russian language in Ukraine now. 🧵
In 2012, for the first time since independence, the share of schoolchildren studying in Ukrainian decreased, and less than half of the total number of books published was in Ukrainian.
In October 2012, only 28% of the prime time on the top 8 TV channels was devoted to Ukrainian-language programs, 44% to Russian-language programs and 28% to bilingual programs.
These figures are slightly better than last year (2011), when Ukrainian-language programs accounted for only 22% of the airtime, but we cannot speak of the dominance of the Ukrainian language in the national television space.
On the 6 top-rated radio stations, songs in Ukrainian account for only 3.4% of the total number of songs in prime time (2011 - 4.6%). At the same time, songs in Russian account for 60% of the total number of songs.
More than 60% of the total circulation of newspapers, 83% of magazines, and about 87% of books (most of which are imported from Russia) are published in Russian in Ukraine.
Out of 290 restaurants in 29 cities, only 50% of them have signs in Ukrainian, 46% have menus in Ukrainian, and only 36% have employees who answer Ukrainian to Ukrainian-speaking customers (in another 11%, employees switched to Ukrainian during the conversation).
68% of films in legal distribution are dubbed in Ukrainian, and the remaining 32% have Ukrainian subtitles. Among the subtitled films, the majority are Russian-made films dubbed in Russian, respectively.
In 2011/12, 81.9% of schoolchildren were taught in Ukrainian, which is 0.3% less than a year earlier. This is the first time since Ukraine's independence that the proportion of students studying in Ukrainian has decreased.
Schoolchildren in 23 of Ukraine's 27 regions are mostly taught in Ukrainian. The exceptions are Donbas and Crimea, with less than 8% of children in Crimea studying in Ukrainian.
In 2011, almost 80% of school leavers chose Ukrainian as the language of instruction for external independent testing. This share varies greatly by region and is almost 100% in Lviv, 97% in Kyiv, 80% in Dnipropetrovs'k, but only 32% in Donetsk and 8% in Crimea.
The legal situation of the Ukrainian language in 2012 deteriorated catastrophically due to the scandalous adoption of the unconstitutional law "On the Principles of State Language Policy".
On August 8, President Viktor Yanukovych signed it.
After that, Russian was granted regional language status in many regions. In particular, in Dnipropetrovs'k, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions.
In addition, the Russian language was supported in 9 cities: Izmail, Odesa, Sevastopol, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Yalta, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Krasnyi Luch.
Hungarian was also made a regional language in Berehove district of Zakarpattia region.
Russification of Ukraine didn’t stop in 1991. It was continued passively because Ukrainian language was marginalised and actively because pro-russian politicians made their job. From 2019 started so-called “soft Ukrainisation” when Ukrainian language in public services started to
be required, but cases of fines for ignoring these regulations were quite rare. Now russian language became an even bigger trigger than it was before. Former Russian speakers unexpectedly find out that their grand-grand parents were Ukrainian speakers but due to
decades-long Russification policy they switched to Russian and now decide to return to their mother tongue. Interest in history grows, same as desire to liberate ourselves of cultural occupation (via demolishing occupiers monuments, renaming streets named by murderers of
Ukrainians, explaining how Russification happened, sharing awareness that language matters, because it is a tool in Russian hands etc). We will move forward in this matter, it’s also a part of our fight for freedom. Forget this “but many Ukrainians speak Russian”, not anymore.
To sum up: the language which actually was “banned” in Ukraine is… Ukrainian.
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Today is the day of the Ukrainian constitution, but the one that has been in force since 2006. The first Ukrainian constitution is the constitution of hetman Pylyp Orlyk of 1710. It established the principle of the separation of powers in government between the legislative,
executive, and judiciary branches well before the publication of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. The document limited the executive authority of the hetman, and established a Cossack parliament called the General Council.
The Constitution protected the rights and freedoms of the Cossacks and established the borders of Ukraine within the boundaries of the Treaty of Zboriv (1649). The hetman was to protect the integrity of the territory, and the King of Sweden was to act as Ukraine's protector.
Many of you have a misconception about the Russian civilian population and the mood in it because you are not in their information space, you do not have access to it, and you do not understand Russian. What you see on Twitter is a very small percentage of their population,
mostly young people who communicate with the civilized world in some way, who have been abroad or are currently living there. The real "bearers of the Russian soul" use Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Telegram (although it is a messenger, it has channels). Ukrainians have not used
Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki since 2014, but they do use Telegram and understand Russian, unfortunately. Therefore, Ukrainians are right about who Russians are, and you are wrong. It’s not about emotions, it’s about context.
Translation: "Why is the situation with the Kachovska dam exploding beautiful? Let me explain. In this war, we will always have one main ace to use against the khokhols.
And it's not even a nuclear weapon. It's the dam of the Kyiv reservoir. A small, thin bridge that holds millions of tons of water, will immediately flow into Kyiv and flush these Augean Stables down the drain. The dam is old, rotten and rusty. It will not withstand many shells.
Hundreds of thousands of Kyiv residents, especially those living on the left bank, will most likely die instantly. Kyiv will never recover from this catastrophe. "I'm sure it's a time bomb whose clock has already started ticking. We thank the USSR for this ace up our sleeve."
Chronology of the terrorist attack on Nova #Kakhovka damm by Russian terrorists.
At two o'clock in the morning, the russians blow up the Kakhovska HPP, but they don't see how big is dectruction. 🧵
1. The Russians still think that they carefully blew up a small part of the HPP and are sinking our military on the islands. At 6:06 a.m., the gauleiter of Nova Kakhovka, Leontiev, says that blowing up the HPP is nonsense. Here is the link of RIA news archive.is/aTyK8
2. The russian OSINT intelligence community Rybar, picks up the thesis and says, that video of detonation of a small area of damm which leaked to the internet is old. Link archive.ph/flapa
A few steps from the entrance to the Jewish Museum there is a poster for a performance by a Russian pianist. My hands are shaking not. Not even out of anger, but out of fear. This means that when they "stop shooting", Russian artists, businessmen and other imperialist racist scum
will immediately flood all exhibitions, museums, theaters, galleries, etc. as if nothing had happened. No one will be brought to collective responsibility, no one will be publicly condemned. Everyone will just forget and forgive. Someone like Navalny, Yashin, or Kara-Murza, who
are considered to be the "opposition," will be a useful tool for this. The Europeans will believe in the "beautiful democratic Russia of the future" and will run to kiss the asses of Russian "liberals" even more, while Ukrainians will be left alone to kiss the graves
As a Ukrainian, I am absolutely against any support for any Russians. This is not because of a desire for revenge. I just want this war of the Russians against Ukraine to be the LAST one.
I believed that they are not all like that all 8 years of the war until 2022 and the first months of the full-scale war (just like you do now), but fortunately I look at things more realistically now.
Any help/support for "different" Russians only works to whitewash their reputation, to allow Russians to go to festivals/awards (hello Cannes, Oscars), to do business as if nothing had happened after the war.