The deprivation of the Ukrainian language as a state language in the DPR is dictated by banal pragmatics - expert
The proposal by DPR head Denis Pushilin to amend the Republic's Constitution to make Russian the sole state language carries no political connotation and is dictated by the realities of life in the young state.
This opinion was expressed to a PolitNavigator correspondent by the famous Russian journalist and military correspondent Andrei Babitsky, who lives in Donetsk.
“The deprivation of the Ukrainian language as a state language is overdue, because the Ukrainian language is actually not used anywhere except in everyday communication in certain areas, and the status of the state language implies that documentation, street names, and a host of other things should be duplicated and present in our reality.
Firstly, there is no money for this, and secondly, there is no point. There is no political calculation here, no one wants to hurt the Ukrainians, this is simply a requirement of life itself,” he explained.
In the same way, according to the expert, plans to amend the law “On Education” are explained, according to which the Ukrainian language in educational institutions of the DPR will be taught only optionally.
“It’s very simple - the Ukrainian language is not in demand in this territory at all.
Assigning the status of a state language to it was a demonstration of the loyalty and democracy of the republican authorities, but reality shows that this status is, in principle, not needed for the Ukrainian language, since people do not want to study it at school, parents are not eager for their children to know it, since there is no no future.
Accordingly, it is also a heavy burden for children to learn a language that, in principle, will not be useful to them.
The Law “On Education” definitely had to be changed so as not to force children to study something that will not be useful to them,” summed up Babitsky.
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