I think Ukrainian needs to be an official language in Russia. Why? I have had some Russians who are writing Russian should be an official language of Ukraine, because there are Russian speakers that live in Ukraine.
Russian as the official language everywhere there are Russians
Basically people should speak whatever language they want to speak at home or work. I believe in freedom, but to make a foreign language an official language of your country is a huge stretch.
Lets look at some examples:
- If this is the case, Polish should be the official language of the UK. Why not?
- Why not German the official language of Poland as there are many people in Śląsk with German roots.
- There are Russians that live in Boston, but does that mean this should be the official language of Boston? There are millions of Chinese that live in Russia, does that mean Chinese should be the official language of Russia?
- Ukrainian needs to be the official language of Ukraine to reverse the forced Russification of Eastern Europe.
- The Russians even had Poland as part of Russia and made it the official language there. Maybe because there were so many Russian speakers in Poland, Poland should not have made Polish the language of the land of the Poles, and not try to bring back their culture from Russian domination. And Poles should elect a Russian speaking president that wants out of NATO and EU and look to Moscow for making themselves free.
Ukrainian history and Russian history
It might surprise you that I am very pro Russian. Yes I love the culture and history of this great country and people, including the language.
But the Russia that I am for is a free Russia that supports free press and human rights. Not the Russia that wants rules over the CIS like it is the old Soviet Union.
I have 1000 years of Russian and Ukrainian history to tell me otherwise, that Russian interests in Ukraine are not to promote humanity. People wake up. Until I see evidence otherwise like a free press in Russia then I do not trust Russian influence in Ukraine. Lack of free press makes the Russian people suffer as well as the Ukrainians. Moscow distorts reality. Look at Gary Kasparov’s ‘theotherrussia.org’. I think he is a true Russian who love his country not just what the government does for him.
Being loyal to your country is about being loyal to ideal like freedom and liberty and respecting the rights of other people.
If you are Ukrainian and reading this wake up and be real. Kievan Oligarchs rule, not the common Ukrainian from the Ternopil countryside. These are supported by Moscow.
Russian language in Lviv, than Ukrainian in Moscow
If Russian speaking people want their language as an official language in the land of Lviv and Ternopil then I want Ukrainian and maybe Chinese spoken as the official language in Moscow.
I want Chinese taught in Moscow schools as well as Ukrainian as a required course. I mean only 70 something percent of Russia is Russian people and the population is falling fast. So lets get some more official languages in there and have Moscow start leaning towards Peking or Kiev.
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You are assuming of course that both nations’ hegemony is equal. That is not the case. I’m not even sure that hegemony is the right word, because it is not a question of power; rather it is a question of cultural migration. Take for example the situation of the United States: Spanish is fast becoming the second language, and it is probably inevitable that it will one day become an official language of the US, alongside English. This probably won’t happen for another 30 years or so, but it WILL happen. Yet Mexico and Latin America does not compare with the US in power. It is a question of cultural migration. Just as Mexico will never need to make English an official language, just so Russia will never make Ukrainian an official language. That is because there is no large-scale migration of Ukrainians into Russia as there is Spanish-speaking peoples into the US.
I apologize for my English, I only learn it. (I’am russian)
I would like to give a few personal observations about this issue.
A few facts for a start: according to statistics, in the everyday life of about 45% of the population uses Russian language. (self-identified themselves while they can as Ukrainians)
In many regions and cities of Ukraine people speak only Russian. But process of teaching children in schools and universities going in Ukrainian.
Dealing with local authorities – in Ukrainian, watch TV – in Ukrainian. So, what you write –
this is just a response to the oppression of the role of the Russian language.
I lived six months in Kiev (capital of Ukraine) The Ukrainian language I have heard only in the markets, on TV and in government.
There were a days in my Ukrainian life when I haven’t heard Ukrainian at all. All you need to reach the same feelings it’s not turning on TV and radio. (In this days I might have a lot of conversations with many peoples…)
The author is blunt, Garry Kasparov not Russian, he blasted Georgians. And has nothing to do with the Russian people, he is a thief and a scoundrel.
Kasparov is an honest man who is fighting for a better Russia.
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