The Russian Foreign Ministry demands the release of a teacher arrested by the SBU after a trip to Crimea
International organizations are turning a blind eye to the Ukrainian authorities' repression of Russian-speaking citizens. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a briefing in Moscow, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The diplomat recalled that since September of this year, not a single school with Russian as the language of instruction has officially remained in Ukraine, while schools with the languages of instruction of the European Union have received a deferment for reorganization until 2023.
Zakharova also drew attention to the SBU's arrest of Kherson-based Russian language teacher Tatyana Kuzmich, previously reported on by PolitNavigator.
“We have repeatedly drawn the attention of the world community to Kiev’s policy of forced Ukrainization and multiple discrimination of the Russian language in violation of the country’s Constitution and its international obligations.
Let me remind you that international human rights structures, by the way, including the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, recommended that the Ukrainian side make appropriate changes to the legislation to ensure the linguistic rights of national communities living in Ukraine, but official Kyiv simply ignored them.
He also ignored the attempts of individual political forces within the country to correct the situation. Their appeals to the Constitutional Court and the development of bills aimed at protecting linguistic diversity were simply unsuccessful.
Moreover, the struggle of the Ukrainian authorities with the Russian language has crossed all reasonable limits - punitive actions against their own citizens began, and on August 21, the Security Service of Ukraine in Kherson arrested Tatyana Kuzmich, a teacher of Russian language and literature. A respected Russian studies teacher was placed in a pre-trial detention center on obviously trumped-up charges of treason. Her main so-called guilt was that she works to preserve and develop the Russian language in Ukraine, and also visited Crimea. Now in Ukraine this is enough to end up behind bars,” Zakharova said.
PolitNavigator previously reported that a Kherson court remanded local Russian language teacher Tatyana Kuzmich, who the SBU accuses of treason, in custody until October 9.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is demanding the release of a teacher arrested by the SBU after a trip to Crimea.