Ukrainian language used to be called Russian, - Ukrainian expert (VIDEO)
Kyiv, November 11 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The Russian language threatens the statehood of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language, which was previously called “Russian”.
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This statement was made at a round table organized by the National Expert Commission for the Protection of Public Morality on the topic “Language Policy as a Component of Counteracting Information Threats and a Priority in Ensuring Information Security: Current State and Challenges” by Petr Kononenko, a researcher of ancient Ukrainianism, who previously headed the Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
“Ukraine is divided by language, and one of the real invaders threatening our country is the language of the neighboring state,” the Ukrainian expert is convinced. – The fact is that without language there is no people and no state. But in what language and what state? In Ukraine there was a people and there was a state. Until the XNUMXth century, dear friends, according to the Lithuanian Statute in the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian state, it was recognized that the language should be Russian - Ukrainian.”
The Ukrainian language was previously called Russian, says a Ukrainian scholar (VIDEO)