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Again, you say 'literally' and then leave out essential part of the quote: "Contrary to the minority languages which are EU official languages, Russian, Belarus
by gdy 4y ago
Again, you say 'literally' and then leave out essential part of the quote: "Contrary to the minority languages which are EU official languages, Russian, Belarusian and Yiddish are granted no exemption for the purposes of the law."
That's dishonest.
"maybe the Ukrainian language that ... needs a bit of an affirmative action"
Maybe, but then discrimination of minority languages doesn't allow you to claim that the Ukrainian policy is on the same level as in Western countries.
- jevgeni 4y agoOf course it does. Or is Russian, Belarusian or Yiddish an official language somewhere in the EU?
- gdy 4y agoPlenty of languages that have fewer percentage of speakers than Russian in the Ukraine are official languages in the EU. And I'm not aware of any civilized country deliberately targeting particular minority languages for discrimination like the Ukraine did in regard to Russian, Belarusian and Yiddish. And you do know why there are few Yiddish speakers in the Europe now, right? Yiddish might have been an official language somewhere in the EU if not for mass extermination of Jews. In which Ukrainian heroes took part [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#Holoc...