The Verkhovna Rada today, December 8, with the votes of 317 people’s representatives, supported bill No. 10288-1 on amending some laws of Ukraine on taking into account the expert assessment of the Council of Europe and its bodies on the rights of national minorities (communities) in certain areas.
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People’s Deputy Irina Gerashchenko reported this on her Facebook page.
The People’s Deputy notes that in this way the Rada adopted all the laws necessary to begin official negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.
It is noted that the parliament adopted a revised version of the bill, from which a high-profile provision was removed that would have extended protection to the Russian language with a delay of five years.
It is important that it was a deputy, and not a government bill, that was brought into the hall,” Gerashchenko notes. — By implementing the recommendations of the Venice Commission, we protected society from a potential decline in the role of the Ukrainian language in education, the media, book publishing and threats to the Russification of the country.
This bill provides that:
- in political advertising, private schools and universities, classes of national minorities, the media will be allowed to use the languages of the European Union and national minorities, except for the language of the aggressor country;
- At the same time, advertising should be duplicated in Ukrainian, and the study of Ukrainian as the state language will be mandatory in all educational institutions, although training can be conducted in EU languages.
This bill implements the recommendations of the Venice Commission for the Protection of Minority Rights, but this does not concern the language of the aggressor country. And not for 5 years, as the government planned, but indefinitely! – emphasizes Gerashchenko.
Source: Racurs
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