What is the percentage of Ukrainian citizens in Ukraine speak the Russian language? About 30% of the Ukrainians speak Russian as their primary language.
However, most of the Russian speaking Ukrainian are in the Autonomous region republic of Crimea. About 50% of the people in this area are ethnic Russians and about 75% speak Russian. However, this is only one region. The rest of Ukraine does not have these percentages.
In New Mexico Spanish speakers are about 50% and in Puerto Rico 95% percent of the people speak Spanish, does that mean the USA should go Spanish?
Most everyone in Ukraine speaks Ukrainian, not Russian. A minority speaks Russian, but a large minority of people in the UK speak Arabic, therefore, should the UK have Arabic as the official language?
Ukrainian should remain the official language of Ukraine. If people want to speak Russian they can, but Ukraine is Ukraine, not a state of Russia. Therefore, The Russian language should not be official in Ukraine.
In Kiev region only 7% of the people speak Russian compared to 90% Ukrainian.
Ukrainian is spoken by 71% percent of Ukrainians in Ukraine.
Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine. However, Russian is required. I think for a people, in this case Ukrainians, to define themselves as a nation it is important to keep the Ukrainian language not Russian as the official language.
In Western Ukraine, like Ternopil oblast (where my family is from) and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast the percentage of Russian language speakers is only about 1%.
Why is the Russian language in Ukraine?
Because Russia is an Empire and always was. This percentage is because Ukraine went under a forced Russification and colonization program by Moscow. Ukrainian was not a legal language. Now Ukrainian is the language of Ukraine, however, Moscow is trying to change that and bring Russia back to its official language status.
The whole objective of Moscow is to try to disrupt and weaken Ukraine so it can further extend its empire.
I have studied Russian history and for 1000 years they do nothing but try to exploit and extract wealth for the elite in Moscow. The tragedy is, the Russian people suffer the most. Russian language speakers and Russians in Ukraine and Russia could be wealthy if they simply voted out these pro-Moscow oligarchs. However, it is not as easy as it seems as Moscow cheats in the Ukrainian elections.
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Moscow always tries to buy vote, poison Ukrainian politicians, bribe officials and rig the Ukrainian elections. Mean while the West is too afraid to say anything. Germany needs gas from Russia, the US needs Russia to support its Oil policies in the Middle East. This is all foolishness. Ukraine is a rich country in terms of people and potential and if Ukraine was integrated in the EU and NATO then Russia’s position would be weakened and eventually Russia would be free from it’s Moscow Oligarchs.
Yulia Tymoshenko Russian and Ukrainian
Yulia is a great leader and would support a Ukrainian language, rather than a Russian language Ukraine. She would help Ukraine bring Kiev into the EU rather than like Belorussia simply a puppet of Moscow.
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25 responses to Russian language in Ukraine
This is so false! I live in Kiev, and everyone in Ukraine speaks russian. Sure, people in western Ukraine are unwilling to speak russian, but they certainly understand it! However, not everyone in Ukraine understand ukrainian fully!! Especially in the east where pracically no one knows ukrainian.
Overall in Ukraine, including Kiev, the situation is such, pracically everything that goes public should be written in ukrainian, like press releases, commercials, and state documents. Since being able to write formally in ukrainian evolves into a requirement for many jobs, in a country where practically everyone thinks in russian, and only write very good in russian, people are not able to get the right jobs in their own country!!
Culturally, people think that russian is the best language to use too, since it has a much larger vocabulary than ukrainian.
Ultimately, everyone speaks russian to an extent, but not everybody know ukrainian. People therefore think that there should be two official languages in Ukraine: russian and ukrainian.
The Yulia Timoschenko government is very against this, and she is the one who has made this an issue, she was the one who made it a requirement to know ukrainian in order to get most jobs, and she was the one who prohibited to even speak russian in the halls of some universities.
According to Wiki and I am Ukrainian in roots, most people, over 70% speak Ukrainian not Russian. Check Wiki, most in the Kiev oblast speak Ukrainian not Russian. Maybe in the center city where you are living Russian, but Ukraine, speaks Ukrainian.
Ukrainian has a larger vocabulary as it is more western and has commonalities with Polish, while Russia just takes English words. Ukrainian takes Russian, Polish and English words.
Yulia Tymoschenko is for the EU. Ukraine would be in EU in 5 years. Do not be an idiot. In the 5 years Poland entered the EU it got rich. I live in Poland.
When Ireland entered the EU it went from the poorest country in Europe (western) to the richest.
I studied Economics, free movement of labor and capital is what does is not Russian oligarchs loyal to czar Putin – are you telling me Belorussia a Moscow puppet state is better than Rich Czech republic?
Like Poland Ukraine would be rich and free.
Russia is only for the elite.
You are a very foolish person and do not understand the world.
OK. Nice site you have, but can you please avoid bickering? Everyone has a point of view. What I want to know is how different are Ukrainian and Russian languages? Can’t a Russian speaker understand Ukrainian, and vice versa? I have heard that is the case.
They are very close, they are both Eastern Slavic languages. Some Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers say that they can not understand each other but lets be honest over 50% of the vocabulary is the same. They might not understand each other perfectly in complex abstract thoughts, but they can be understood if they need to communicate. I speak Polish and when in Crimea could communicate with Russians and Ukrainians with basic things.
However, they are different languages. If a Russian or Ukrainian spends a couple of months trying to speak the other language they can speak it. I know many Ukrainians in Poland and in half a year they speak Polish and this is a Western and Eastern Slavic language. Yes they will all complain and say know, but I see it. I know Russians that speak Polish with no accent. In Ukraine all Ukrainians know Russian and it is on TV and in school and the other way around also. Therefore, it is not a big deal.
Why not just have Ukrainian the national language of Ukraine.
Hi Mark,
I do not know what you learned and where.
But as Ukrainian with two universities behind my back I can tell you that you article is all full of BS.
What do you know about Ukraine. Do you know that western Ukrainians speak a mixture of Hungarian, Romanian and Ukrainian.(Karpati region). No one in Ukraine can understand them. In order to speak Ukrainian language you have to learn it as any other language. It is not an easy one. I learned Ukrainian in the school. Yes I can speak basic Ukrainian but when it comes to professional language or business language I am done. My first University was Kiev polytechnical intitute and we had no classes in Ukrainian. None of the students spoke Ukrainian and there were thousands of students and teachers. In soviet time Ukrainian was spoken in small villages and western territories. Eastern, Southern and most of the central territories spoke Russian. When I am in Kiev and have business meetings with some of the government employees and we spoke Russian. They are forced to speak Ukrainian at work. I am not against Ukrainian language but it has to be implemented gradually. I also do not see the problem with two official languages. India has 18 official languages, Canada two, South Africa has 11 official languages. There are many other countries which have different official languages.
I also doubt that you have studied any history otherwise you would know how Russian language became the language of majority Ukrainian poeple.
Regarding election and Yulia Tymoshenko.
If you know the history or follow Ukrainian politics you would know former Ukrainian PM Lazarenko. He is in USA jail right now and will stay there for a long time. You should also know that Yulia was his first aid in his business (illegal). May be I will tell you the secret but you should know that aid of the majia (in Russia or Ukrain) are those who all the dirty staff. Basically she has to be in jail the same as her former boss who she betrayed when Kuchma promised her a place in his government.
Also European countries have seen her work for the past five years. Ukrainian economy was brought down to her knees. No one knows where IMF and WB money went. Youlia is good for scandals. That all that she can do well and all she was doing for the past five years. European politicians are scared of her because she is not predictable and dangerous for Europe. It was one of the reasons that Ukraine was not accepted into NATO and EU.
She speaks Ukrainian only because of the support of the western and part of the central territories. She even would speak Chinese and make it an official language if it would help her to win the elections.
If I were you I would not write about the things you do not know or learned in the pubs.
I love it. I love this type of reply. First you talk about your degrees rather than the facts.
The facts are 20 something percent of the people in Ukraine speak Russian. That is about the same about of people in the US that speak Spanish, well maybe a little less. Check it Wiki or any other site. Yulia is a patriot. Victor Yanukovich is a Parrot of Czar Putin. My family is from Ukraine. Western Ukraine and I live in Poland. The languages you speak of are very small groups of people like Cajans in the USA or people in NYC that speak Ukrainian. You have this in every country.
Look at the voting, Yulia even won by a majority in Kiev. Only this Eastern areas where Russia has bought votes did she lose. Look the Victor Yanukovich is a wooden ex communist.
Do not be so foolish. Yulia wanted to bring Ukraine in the EU in 5 years. This would have made Ukraine rich like it has made Poland rich.
Russia will only exploit people. This has been the history of Russia as it is an imperialistic nation. Go to Gary Kasparov’s website “the other Russia” – He is a true patriot of Russia, he stands for freedom and human rights.
The Ukrainian and Russian people will suffer and be ruled by the new Russians and oligarchs, you need to understand how the world works.
At least I greeted you.
As you could read I mentioned my degrees and then listed the facts.
The only reason I mentioned my degrees is to let you know that I am knowledgeable and I had learned many things in universities and not from Internet. Also to let you know that unlike you I experienced life in Ukraine while living in Ukraine and I know it for a fact and not from the stories that were told by solders of bandera or Ukrainian nationalists. I firmly believe that nationalism is not the way to go.
As per the statements that you are trying to present as facts I can tell you the following:
If you acquire your knowledge from the Internet sources then I cannot debate this subject with you. I personally prefer debates based on the official information, scientific data and official polls.
Let me translate for you some data from Ukrainian official data and not the stories of my friends, relatives or nationalist propaganda. These are Ukrainian government sources.
According to official data from the 2001 Ukrainian census, the Russian language is native for over 14,273,000 Ukrainian citizens (29.3% of the total population. It is 2.9% decrease from 1989. ) Therefore the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine forms the largest linguistic group in modern Europe with its language being non-official in the state.
According to a 2004 public opinion poll by the Kiev International Sociology Institute, the number of people using Russian language at their homes considerably exceeds the number of those who declared Russian as their native language in the census. According to the survey, Russian is used at home by 43–46% of the population of the country (in other words a similar proportion to Ukrainian) and Russophones make a majority of the population in Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine:[18]
• Autonomous Republic of Crimea — 97% of the population
• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — 72%
• Donetsk Oblast — 93%
• Zaporizhia Oblast — 81%
• Luhansk Oblast — 89%
• Mykolaiv Oblast — 66%
• Odessa Oblast — 85%
• Kharkiv Oblast — 74%
Russian language dominates in informal communication in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. According to data obtained by the “Public opinion” foundation (2002), the population of the oblast centres prefers to use Russian (75%).
According to Larisa Masenko who is the head of a chair of Ukrainian language institute in Kiev
Так, згідно з результатами всеукраїнських передвиборчих опитувань, які провів у 1998 р. центр соціологічних досліджень національного університету «Києво-Могилянської академії», що враховували не тільки національність респондентів, але й мову, якою вони відповідали на запитання, українською мовою відповідали 39-40% опитаних, російською – 45%
In short it means that even in 1998 majority were speaking Russian. The number did not change in 2004.
According to the same source in 2001 in interethnic relations dominate Russian language.
Результати перепису 2001 року щодо виявлення мовних характеристик груп національних меншин якраз і показали, що у функції мови міжнаціонального спілкування в Україні домінує не українська, що було б закономірно для державної мови, а все ще російська
You can also find Lingvo – ethnic structure of Ukraine document issued by KMIC(in English translation is International Sociology Institute)
This document dated 2004-11-11
Just a few quotes.
Easiest language to speak in%
Ukrainian 47.2
Russian 52.8
There are much more official data that explains different aspects of language and ethnic structure of Ukraine and I am not saying that everything points to the Russian language being the first in all the measures. All I am saying is that language issue in Ukraine is not simple but complicated and responsible people would not claim irresponsible statements. As I told you before many ethnic Ukrainians including myself historically do not speak Ukrainian and do not consider Ukrainian language as mother tongue. There are some Russians and other ethnic groups who consider Ukrainian language their mother tongue and speak Ukrainian. I do not know what the best solution is and no one knows. There has to be a compromise. The only thing that I know is that people with no knowledge on this subject should not misinform the public.
About the foolishness.
I never was, is and will be foolish when it comes to the life, business, politicians, politics and everything else in any of the former Soviet republics. Do not make yourself look foolish at least in the eyes of the people who know the life in and out in the former Soviet republics. Just so you know it did not change too much.
I personally think that it is a shame to have all this criminals as candidates for presidency. But because you do not know anything about Ukraine and its politicians I will give you a couple of facts.
1. 27.03.1995Yulia Timoshenko was arrested for smuggling $26,000.00 US and 4 mln karbovancev(local curency) in cash through Ukrainian customs. The investigation was stopped in 2005 by the judge who is the father of one of the member of Yulia’s party and head of public procurator’s office which was placed to this position by Yulia after she became PM.
2. In 1996 she was stopped in Moscow airport when she was trying to smuggle $100,000.00 US in cash. This resulted in criminal case where investigators found out that she was bribing top military commanders. They were fired and jailed later.
3. As head of the UEIL she did not pay 7.5 billion griven ($1,6 млрд долларов) to Russian GAZPROM. This money were paid to GAZPROM by Ukrainian government in 2005 when she was PM.
4. She was trying to become PM in 1996 to avoid the arrest.
5. Transferred $273 mln US to former PM Lazarenko. $162 mln US transfer was proven in US court. She was wanted by US authorities for the same criminal actions as Lazarenko but when she supported the orange madness US dropped the charges.
I can continue the list with her full achievements as a criminal but I do not see any point. You do not look into the facts you just express your emotions.
Regarding the communists. They are both communists. They have the same mentality.
She is more dangerous because she does not have any limits.
She is not Ukrainian per say. Her mother is Russian and her father is either Lithuanian or Armenian. She claims that he was Lithuanian but according to his last name he was Armenian. She did not speak Ukrainian until she decided to get one of the government positions. (1994-1995). She started to talk Ukrainian publically only in 1996 when was trying to get PM position.
She does not care about the language, Ukrainians or EU. All she cares about is power.
Regarding patriots and happiness of the Russian and Ukrainian people.
Everyone is patriot our days. Since patriotism is subjective term everyone can call himself the one. The other thing is that I hate when people think that they are professionals in everything. Kasparov is a patriot so is Putin, Zhirinovsky, Zuganov, Juzshenko, Obama. Every one has it is own definition of patriotism and they look at themselves as patriots of their countries but they are not from someone else’s point of view.
Russian people and Ukrainian people will suffer regardless of who is their presidents.
Let them decide for themselves what to do and who to vote for. Do not give them advises especially when you have no idea what is really going on in those countries and how it all works.
I would advise you to right about Poland and Polish language and maybe I will read some interesting and useful information about Poland.
Regardes.
Ukrainian, that is an interesting reply, but the bottom line is this, Ukraine can go lean west and join the EU or lean towards Moscow and the Byzantine politics of cloak and dagger and oligarchs.
As Gary Kasparov points out Russia is not free as the press is not free and is a tool to manipulate people. On his website it is clear ‘The news is distorted by in Russia, which is controlled directly or indirectly by the Kremlin’. How can you be so naive? Do you now know how the world works?
Maybe your smarter than Kasparov?
And as I stated before, my family is from Ukraine and am I not Ukrainian? Does a persons government stamped paper determine their nationality? Your thinking is very 1970s big state run government lets look to Moscow.
Dear Friends from Ukraine,
I have a question for you: Why are you so upset on Russian past practices regarding Ukraine and why you are not democratic regarding other languages as Romanian in Bukovina and Odessa regions or Hungarian (Let call Karpaty region). The Ukrainian practice is the same: not proper schools in above mentioned languages, no rights! You want to be respected but you forgot to respect others. In this way, the Ukrainian mentality is Soviet one!
Liviu
Lets make every language spoken in the USA and Canada the official language and teach all 107 of them in schools and use them in government offices. There are linguistic minorities in Poland, but so what, it is Poland and the official language is Polish. People are free to speak whatever language they want, but when it comes to the official language, Ukrainian in Ukraine and Russian in Russia makes perfect sense.
I think Ukrainian should be the official language of Russia. Why not? There are many Ukrainians living in Russia. I also think Chinese should be the official language of Russia.
Poland is Poland but Ukraine includes some non-Ukrainian territories as Crimeea (gift from Hrusciov), Donetsk (gift from Stalin), South Basarabia, Bukovina (Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement).
Ukrainian nationalists want to stop other languages where they (Ukrainians) have not a majority. The Ukrainian policy is not the same as Polish one. In Poland, the German minority could use German language in their collectivities: they have schools, newspapers and so on. Dare you to bring Romanian some books in Reni? (a small cities where Romanians have majority). You wouldn’t be an Ukrainian lawyer.
As you can see in my previous posts I never said that Russia is democratic raw model.
I even did not tell you that Russia has democracy. We did not have any discussion about Russia you just jump from subject to subject. Let’s stop this discussion because we are not discussing Russian international or internal policies as well as Russian history and historical events related to Russia.
Ukraine can go any way their people want and its direction should be decided by people of Ukraine by elections and national forums or any other form of public consultation. I also would like to be the part of Europe but I would not want to be a part of United muslim states of Europe.(Euorabia). This is different subject.
I am sure that I am smarter than Kasparov in some aspects of life and he is smarter than me in other aspects of life. No one is 100% smart unless you are well known genius and even then you will not be 100% smart in all the life situations.
I did not quite understand what you meant when talking about nationality.
I can tell you that in current Ukrainian internal passport there is no field for “NATIONALIY”. I actually agree with this. The only people who are against it are Timoshenko’s people. Last year Ростислав Новоженец, who is the member of Timoshenko party, suggested to add field NATIONALITY to the internal passport. My thinking is my own thinking. Your thinking is not a thinking it is declaration of other people views.
Dear Liviu,
I am not upset about Russian past practices regarding Ukraine.
It is already history and we should learn from it and it has to be left behind.
Your question is valid. That is why I am saying that it is complicated issue and cannot be resolved by Ukrainian current practices. It has to be reviewed taking into consideration interests of many others ethnic groups living in Ukraine.
I am not a nationalist at all. Ultimately I am proud that I have roots from Ukraine but I opposed to nationalism. Nationalism was the worst mistake of the 20th century, along with some crazy political ideologies. I am pro-humanity and freedom. However, I think for a country, whether it be the UK for English or Ukraine for Ukrainian a national language is fine as it is the official language.
In Poland you do not learn German in schools or can not speak it in any Uząd. You must speak Polish. No big deal. Same in the UK for English.
Mark,
based on your childish comment from February 12th, 2010 at 17:0.
I can conclude that there is no point in trying to discuss serious issues with you.
Grow up first.
Thanks for your attention.
Ukrainian, only time will tell which leader was the better choice. I really enjoy living in the EU and the freedom and transparent laws and government as well as free movement anywhere in Europe. But if Victor will bring openness and freedom and opportunities for Ukrainians then that will be good.
I do have to say you kept your cool here when this could have been a very heated debate.
I really find it very interesting while i read through your contributions!
People, ukraine can only be built by Ukrainians and not Russians or Eu countries.We have great similarities with Ukraine since we also have an Orange Movement here in our country! Can somebody really tell me what Orange is all about?Am not talking of any other country other than Kenya, East Africa! This Orange thing is a movement that is funded by outsiders who wouldn’nt wish to see countries prospering!
In the year 2007 and early 2008, Kenya was about to go to the dogs all because the leader we had who had governed for only one term had realised the west has no heart for any developing country. By the time we were going for our elections, Kenya could factor her budget 93% from local financing!!, This became strange since we had just come out from a negative index to a positive one!!!!, They founded this monster called Orange movement which could hear less of the achievements!The country became polarised to an extent of even wanting a separate state!!!!!, What does this tell us? If you do not sing their tune, you are condemned, regardless of all that you have done!! They like capitalising on poverty and tribalism, sectionalism ,and not unless you wisen up, people, YOU WILL FIND YOURSELVES IN A MORE TOUGH GROUND THAN WE DID!!!
For politicians, wherever you go, these are very selfish human beings and for any transaction that is not helping him or her personally,it absolutely becomes unpopular and always looks out for irresponsible support to state his stand!!
We had lived for more than 24 years under dictatorship,collapse of the economy, infrastructure,factories closing down………….. these “good” friends of ours were no where!!!!, BUT when we got one of the people ready to develop the country, here they come pinpointing all mistakes we have in all books only because they are not benefiting from Government tenders and there is more transparency!!!
Talking while outside your country is no patriotism!!! You need to be under the tree to exactly understand what comes down and who collects what!
Warm and sweet regards and I need to know who sponsers ORANGE, look beyond the holizon!!!
Ukraine is the cradle of Slavic culture, at least Eastern Slavic culture. Ukrainians have really had a hard time from both Western and Eastern European powers. There is nothing nationalistic by saying the Ukrainian language should stay the official language of Ukraine and Russians should not try to influence Kiev policy. It is a very simple idea that a people should be allowed to have their own nation, free and self determined.
Ukraine:
I am from Poland and I have been to the Ukraine many times, also a very dear friend of mine is Ukrainian from Ivano-Frankivsk. She has told me on many occasions, as well as many people in the Ukraine, that Russian is now essential. She happens to speak both languages fluently. It has nothing to do with current policies. It’s a language. In America people speak English, but that does not mean we have a Queen or follow British policies. The past is the past. It’s unfortunate that not all Ukrainians can in fact speak Ukrainian, but the truth is the majority of Ukraine speaks Russian period. It would be nice for schools to teach both languages. However, eliminating Russian would just prove to be disastrous since in the east almost everyone can only communicate in Russian. The one good thing is that both languages are so similar.
Polka- I deleted your insulting comments as you do not have the ability to talk to someone with kindness, further you talk on anecdotal evidence but it is wrong. Lets look at the facts. Further your metaphor is wrong, its not British English it is Spanish. Do not be naive, of course politics is involved.
Facts on the Ukrainian languages
I am from Poland also and my family is from Ukraine so I think I know what I am talking about. Only 29 something percent of the people in Ukraine speak Russian as their first language. 71 percent use Ukrainian. Please check a source like Wiki, this will confirm this, not some friend of a friend who says something. Further, this number is changing as Ukrainian is back in the schools and this could change to over 80% unless politicians who are puppets from Moscow reverse policies.
Poland and the Russian language had a similar history like Ukraine- forced Russification
I think you as a Polish girl should learn Russian as Poland was part of Russia and many people speak Russian there right? Russian was spoken in Poland not only during the partitions but during communist times. You must be a child not to remember that or know all the people who had to learn Russian? Do you want Poland to be part Russian?
You have a double standard for Ukrainians. Many uneducated Poles have this towards Ukrainians. I do not. Ukraine should be like Poland a normal self determined country.The Poles who are educated know that Ukraine is Poland’s most important ally in the future as it could have been in the past to stand in contrast with Moscow and Berlin politics. This is why the president of Poland was really for Yulia.
Why not make German a dual language in Poland? I mean if you do not speak German than how can you manage in Western Poland?
Why not make English the official language of Poland as it is essential in Poland today?
An official language of a country has large political ramifications. Do you now understand that?
American English as a metaphor for Ukrainian
In the USA most people speak English but many speak Spanish. However, I do not need Spanish to get around. In fact in states like New Mexico the majority of people speak Spanish. That does not mean I must learn Spanish. No way. I am also an American and do not know Spanish (that well).
All of Western Ukraine is Ukrainian only speaking. Russian is not welcomed. My friends and family from Ukraine do not speak Russian. They are in Krakow going to Uniwersytet Jagielloński.
Polka you have no understanding of the way the world works, you just repeat other people’s opinions and insult because maybe you do not have the ability to write intelligently with facts to back up your statements about the Ukrainian language.
This article is not really true. By far most people in Ukraine are Russian speaking. From experience I would have to estimate at least 60%. But also I do agree that Ukrainian should be the only official language. The mass use of Russian was brought into Ukraine artificially and for imperialistic reasons. Also if you know one of them the other is easy learn so it shouldn’t be a problem. However, the problem is that many of the “russian rights” advocates are anti-Ukrainian and don’t even recognize Ukrainian as legitimate language. Why should the government please these people? For the minority of the people who don’t know how to speak Ukrainian, they need to learn it. I learned how to speak 3 different languages ( beside Ukrainian and Russian by native languages) over a course of few years and it is no problem. Growing up in Soviet Union my teachers told me “Russian and Ukrainian are brotherly languages but you should speak Russian”, now Ukrainian government should say that Ukrainian and Russian are brotherly languages but you should speak Ukrainian.
According to Wiki and any other sources Ukrainian is spoken by almost 80% of the people.
Russian is taking over the Ukrainian gas company, stationing troops until 2045 on Russian soil etc. Basically Russian is playing an empire like it does all over the former Soviet bloc.
I do not understand why the people of Russian tolerate this. Russians are great and I really mean that. The Russian government is not for them, but for the oligarchy.
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