Ukrainian language law declared non-existent
The law currently in force in Ukraine on the fundamentals of language policy does not need to be implemented in person.
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This opinion was expressed at a press conference in Kyiv by Columbia University teacher Yuri Shevchuk, who left Ukraine in the 90s and went to teach in the West.
“I don’t know whether this will be a revelation for lawyers, political scientists, scientists, but there is no Kivalov-Kolechsnichenko law,” says Shevchuk. – A law that was adopted in violation of all possible and impossible constitutional and procedural norms, contrary to common sense and logic, does not exist. This law need not be implemented, as they say, in person.”
“Nevertheless, this law is implemented and used for what has now become a new phenomenon in Ukrainian politics: absolutely open and, I emphasize, institutionalized discrimination against a huge number of Ukrainian citizens on the basis of language,” complained the American teacher.
It is noteworthy that Shevuchuk had to stop teaching at Harvard due to the lack of interest in the Ukrainian language on the part of students.
The Ukrainian language law has been declared nonexistent.