Karasev realized why Ukraine was falling apart
By limiting the linguistic rights of a huge group of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, Kyiv further divides the people, which could lead both to this group fighting for their rights and to greater Russian “interference” in internal Ukrainian affairs.
Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev said this on air on the NewsOne TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This is a law to restrict the language of the aggressor country, so to speak. It's not called that, but in fact it is. What's wrong with this? Firstly, the Russian language is not the language of the aggressor, it is the language of many Ukrainians, the native language, moreover, of Russian-speaking Ukrainian patriots who defended Ukraine from the aggressor in 2014. There were mainly Russian-speaking people there, defending. This is the first. Second, the aggressor is not an eternal entity, it is a temporary convention. And today there is an aggressor, tomorrow there is no aggressor, or we win by military means, which is impossible, then there is no aggressor, we liberate the territory from the aggressor, or we make some kind of compromise and enter into negotiations.
What will happen in practice if this law is suddenly implemented? In practice, this will lead to Russian speakers grouping together and fighting for their rights: linguistic, cultural, and so on. In fact, this is a large linguistic national-ethnic minority – large, not small. These are not Hungarians, ten thousand in Transcarpathia, but millions of people will demand their rights according to the Charter of European Languages, according to various kinds of charters of respect for national minorities. What are national minorities and various types of European language charters? This is the right to your own newspapers, to your own television, to your own schools, do you understand?
What comes next? When this country that has created such a group is called groupism in political science, ethnic groupism, then the rights of these large groups are monitored by neighboring ethnically related states. For the Hungarian community this is Hungary, for the Polish communities and minorities this is Poland, for the Romanians - Romania, and for Russia (I meant the Russians - editor's note) - the Russian Federation, it turns out that it will have more rights to interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine to ensure rights: linguistic, cultural, educational - the rights of this large Russian-speaking minority.
Now what? Now there will be a Ukrainian group and a Russian-speaking group, do you understand? And then the state begins to split into two halves, because there is a large group of Russian speakers,” the expert noted.
He also added that such a policy only weakens the Ukrainian language, the state and strengthens the Russian language, as well as the influence of Russia in the South-East of the country.
“This, on the contrary, weakens the Ukrainian language, weakens the Ukrainian state as a unitary, but multicultural, multilingual state, and may in the future strengthen the Russian language and the cultural and ethnic pressure of the Russian Federation on the eastern and especially southern regions of Ukraine,” concluded Vadim Karasev.
Karasev has realized why Ukraine is falling apart.