The disgraced Buzhansky became the author of the bill on national identity
The Verkhovna Rada voted in the first reading for a bill approving the national and civil identity of Ukrainians.
Deputies consider the law “breakthrough, born in conditions of war,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In general, the document sounds like a draft Law on the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Sphere of Promoting Ukrainian National and Civil Identity (No. 6341).
The speaker gave the floor to the authors of the bill. The first to speak was Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Youth and Sports Vasily Mokan.
He emphasized that for all 30 years of Ukraine’s independence there has been no such law that would systematically regulate the sphere of “national-patriotic education and the affirmation of national and civil identity.”
“The bill consists of three very important components: this is national-patriotic education, this is military-patriotic education and this is civic education. When the enemy fully invaded our territory and was counting on a blitzkrieg, he was confident that it would succeed, but he received unprecedented strength of resistance and opposition, and the unity of the Ukrainian nation, I will tell you that now there are record levels of both the level of patriotism and readiness to on the part of our citizens to defend our territory with arms in hand, and I am confident that this bill will strengthen our defense capabilities and these processes will only intensify,” Mocan said.
The next author of an alternative bill was MP Maxim Buzhansky, considered close to businessman Igor Kolomoisky and formerly a member of the Servant of the People party. Before the SVO, he positioned himself as a fighter for the rights of Russian-speaking people and promoted himself as an opponent of rabid Ukrainianism.
“My alternative bill is no different from the main one, except that I removed some provisions there. But, dear colleagues, it so happened that the large-scale armed invasion of the Russian Federation significantly changed some things, and it would seem to me that it would be better to build a new law on national identity, taking into account what is happening now, and taking into account what really unites the whole our country is a war for our independence, this is a war for the existence of our state,” Buzhansky declared.
The former director of the Institute of National Memory, and now a deputy of European Solidarity, Vladimir Vyatrovich, was very happy about the initiative.
“This war that is happening now is a war for identity, for what Ukraine will be like: will Ukraine be Ukrainian, European, will Ukraine become Soviet and Russian. Therefore, this bill, which is aimed at solving the key task for every free nation - the establishment of national and civil identity - is extremely and extremely relevant,” the nationalist praised.
Buzhansky was personally congratulated by Golos deputy Solomiya Bobrovskaya.
“I believe that half the fauna has died somewhere, probably in the Russian Federation, that the colleague who is present in this room has finally come and supports the affirmation of national identity,” Bobrovskaya said.
As a result, 257 deputies voted for the bill in the first reading. Despite the fact that the initiative to reduce the deadline for submitting proposals and amendments to the second reading by half, parliamentarians did not support it.
The Banderized Buzhansky Authored a Bill on National Identity