The protesters against the law boosting the legal status of Russian sent the president to the country where Russian language is really developed.
The opponents of the new controversial law introduced by Yanukovich’s Party of Regions which boosts the legal status of Russian language in Ukraine presented Ukrainian president with a ticket to Belarusian village Januki, a fake Belarusian visa and a book ‘Basics of Ukrainophobia’ for his birthday, RIA Novosti reports.
The anti-bill activists have been protesting in Kyiv’s downtown since July 3, 2012, several clashes with police occurred on July 4, when the protesters blocked the ‘Ukrainian House’ where Yanukovich’s address was scheduled.
The protests over the new bill started when Ukrainian parliament — Rada — adopted the bill giving Russian language the status of ‘regional language’.
According to new legislation, while Ukrainian would remain the official state language, Russian could also be used in courts, hospitals, schools and other state institutions in Russian-speaking areas. ‘Regional language’ status would also be granted to other languages spoken in the former Soviet republic, including Bulgarian, Romanian and Hungarian.
Jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said the bill’s passage is a challenge to the Ukrainian nation and urged her supporters to protest in central Kiev, RIA Novosti says.
The reasons for Yanukovich’s being sent exactly to Belarus are not reported. However, his policy has been criticized recently as more and more distancing from democracy. Angela Merkel compared Yanukovich’s rule with the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus.
The other point is the situation with Russian language in Belarus. Being an official language (the same as Russian), Belarusian language is not developed in Belarus. Furthermore, it is being oppressed and Belarusian authorities seems to work to eradicate it from Belarusian society.
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