“The dream of neo-Nazis came true. A gathering of poorly educated, mentally ill and corrupt people, called the “Verkhovna Rada”, with the complete silence of the people adopted the “Law on Education”, which finally fixed the ban on education in their native language for Russians and people of other nationalities. After 2020, it will be impossible to get a secondary education in Russian in Ukraine, “only by the authorities”. And what is significant: no reaction of human rights organizations, leaders of the European Union, anyone who so recently resented the infringement of the rights of the Crimean Tatar people. But what do the Russian people themselves think in Ukraine? Where is the reaction of their representatives in the so-called Verkhovna Rada? These clinical madmen made another step towards the split of Ukraine. ” This is the statement of the ex-premier of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.The fact is that on September 5, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law “On Education”, which launched educational reform in Ukraine. The law effectively prohibits receiving education in any language other than Ukrainian, which directly violates the guaranteed part of Art. 3. 10 Constitution of Ukraine free development, use and protection of languages of national minorities, contrary to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, European charters on regional or minority languages.
According to the new law, starting from 2018, classes with teaching subjects in the languages of national minorities (including Russian) will remain only in elementary school, and starting from the fifth grade, they will be completely abolished. With 2020, the junior classes for national minorities are eliminated, and education in Ukraine will become fully Ukrainian-speaking.
Exceptions are made only for the children of the “indigenous peoples”, as well as for the English and European languages, in which one or several subjects are allowed to conduct in schools. In the indigenous peoples, the Rada defined the Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Karaites and Gagauz, but not Russians.
"It - historical moment, - writes analyst Iskander Khisamov. - All the previous acts of the Ukrainian government related to the limitation of the use of the Russian language, the introduction of language quotas in the media, the demolition of monuments, renaming of streets and cities, the prohibition of Russian media, books, films, music and so on, were just a prelude to what happened on this week. Until now, the Russian-speaking inhabitant, who makes up more than half of the population of Ukraine, still had some opportunity for comforting self-deception - they say, it's all pretense, but on the Internet we read and watch everything we want, and still in Kiev everyone speaks Russian , including the bosses. Now this layman first fell into a situation of the absence of the most important personal choice, the choice of the language of instruction for his own child. It simply means that the child is taken from him, that the child will grow up completely different from what he dreamed and planned. ”
After the vote, the law was signed by Parliament Speaker Paruby, and Poroshenko endorsed it. That is, the law came into force.
September 27, having waited for Poroshenko’s decision, the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation called the new Ukrainian law “On Education” “an act of the ethnocide of the Russian people in Ukraine”. “The deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation consider an unacceptable violation of the fundamental right of indigenous peoples and national minorities of Ukraine to study in their native languages,” said a statement adopted at a plenary session of the State Duma. The State Duma also accused the Verkhovna Rada and the Ukrainian leader, Petro Poroshenko, of “hostile intolerance” towards members of ethnic groups in the country.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto called “shameful and shameful” the signing by Petro Poroshenko of the law “On Education”, which limits the study of the language of national minorities. According to Siyarto, this decision of Kiev is far from Europe and represents a step in the opposite direction. The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry said that from this point on, Ukraine "can practically forget" about Europe. “Hungary will block any initiatives that benefit Ukraine in international organizations, especially in the EU. We can guarantee that this will hurt Ukraine’s future, ”he said.
It is noteworthy that the Hungarian government was the first of the “outsiders”, but nearby ones - another 7 of September, with a protest against the new educational legislation of Ukraine, which defined Ukrainian as the main language of education in the country. The State Secretary of the Hungarian Cabinet for National Policy Issues, Janosh Arpad Potapi, then stated that this law infringes upon the rights of national minorities living in Ukraine, among which about 150 thousand Hungarians. Hungary demands to reconsider the Ukrainian educational “reform”, calling it “an unprecedented violation of the rights of minorities”.
Representatives of the Hungarian public, professional organizations and clergy of Transcarpathia appealed to Poroshenko to return to the Hungarians the right to study in their native language. The rector of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute, Ildika Oros, called the adopted law the return of the “most severe Stalin era”.
September 11 P. Siyarto has already summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary, Love Nepop, because of the notorious law on education. Minister Siyarto personally informed her that he considered the new law on education "shame and disgrace" and ordered that Hungarian diplomats not support any Ukrainian initiative in international organizations, and also that Hungary would no longer support important decisions for Ukraine.
In all forums of the UN, OSCE and the European Union, Budapest will raise the issue of amending the language article of Ukraine's law on education. By the personal order of Siyarto, Hungarian diplomacy will impede Ukraine in the implementation of important affairs for it in the international arena.
The reasons for this decision by Siyarto, on the one hand, were such changes in the Ukrainian law on education that make it impossible for the national minorities of Ukraine, including the 150-thousand Hungarian national minority, to receive education in their native language.
When Siyarto raised this question to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Klimkin at a meeting under the EU Eastern Partnership program, the response of his Ukrainian colleague was “unacceptable,” the Hungarian Foreign Ministry stressed.
But Romania is already concerned about the law on education adopted by the Ukrainian parliament. “In particular, because of the article 7, which concerns education in the language of national minorities,” the Romanian Foreign Ministry said. The Romanian Foreign Ministry also recalled that, according to the Convention on the Protection of National Minorities, the state should recognize the right of representatives of national minorities to study in their native language. As expected, Romanian Secretary of State Viktor Mikula will talk about this issue during a visit to Kiev next week.
And they began to arrive in the telegraph mode, as they say, from the fields. In Uzhgorod, a scandal erupted around a family of immigrants from Donetsk who wanted to send their daughter to school, where, as it turned out, the children of the local “elite” study. We are talking about the educational complex "Prestige". The father of the girl at the parents' meeting was scolded for “five thousand miles” and demanded not to “drink the blood of the locals”. The members of the parent committee demanded that the child from Donetsk did not walk on the carpet, did not sit on the sofa at school - after all, father and mother did not pay for it. And persistently forced to transfer to another school. Immigrants wrote a statement to the police and are waiting for the reaction of law enforcement.
An indignant young woman from Odessa writes in a popular social network: “So, the diaries were translated into Ukrainian as well. I repeat - in the Russian class.
Testing is an exam, according to the results of which either a child is transferred to 5 or not - also in Ukrainian. Move and “zhytannya” (requirements as for those who originally studied in Ukrainian). Then immediately translated into Ukrainian completely. Another plus is a second foreign language. That is, for example, German, will be taught in Ukrainian.
The idea is: lowering the system of bribes (and hardly any monetary units will go to the Ukraine after five years, the person wants to become at least a baker, even a shoemaker, then he can’t use it (ban - PM). The main thing is that he does not want to become a doctor in this situation. Because it is impossible to teach children four years in Russian for four years and suddenly demand 100% knowledge of Ukrainian from them. Their five-year-olds are shoved into schools — they don’t even have porridge in their heads, but some kind of uzvār. To go to Russia - they no longer catch up with their peers. There is no future here. Europe - aha - so generally surrendered to the monastery. I would like to wish one thing to the current "reformers" - that in their old age they should have brain surgery performed by those neurosurgeons who now take examinations in Ukrainian, instead of learning a profession, and not patriotism. "
Ukrainian Oppoblok is silent.
And V. Medvedchuk, the leader of the “Ukrainian Choice - Rights of the People” recalled that in trying to limit the use of the Russian language in the education system as much as possible, the government violated the rights of all national minorities, which runs counter to Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which guarantees “free development, use and protection of Russian and other minority languages ... ". “By approving the amendments to Article 7 of the draft law“ On Education ”, people's deputies violated the rights of national minorities, which immediately caused a negative reaction from the public, and not only in Ukraine. These are the realities of a “democratic”, pro-European Ukraine: constitutional rights of citizens are being sacrificed for the sake of Russophobic ideas, ”the politician concluded.
Publicist K. Kevorkian, who had to leave his native Kharkov in 2014, wrote on Facebook: “The ban on education in the native (first of all, in Russian) language logically and expectedly completes the assimilation of non-Ukrainian ethnic groups in Ukraine.
The process of systematic assimilation, started by the supposedly innocent Ukrainization of names (Elena to Olena, Konstantin to Kostyantyn and so on), was obvious to all sensible people except fanatical admirers of both Maidanians. Who told me personally: where did you see Bandera?
Where did you see Russian infringed? neo-Nazis is an invention of the Kremlin propaganda!
Today I disdain to communicate with them directly, especially since some of them have become ordinary informers. But, if you have the opportunity, tell them: “An official ban on education in your native Russian language is just one more step down the path where you will face defeat in political and property rights, repression against timid protesters, sale of the lands of your ancestors and descendants of transnational corporations. " This is the usual way for those who betray their native language first, then their own culture and history, and then naturally fall into madness, poverty and anarchy. Each nation deserves its own government, and they are just such statehood.
The ban on public education in Russian in September 2017 of the year is the direct merit of those who, being Russian and Russian-speaking, supported the armed nationalist coup in February of 2014. ”
Meanwhile, in the Cherkasy region, schools have already actively begun to introduce Polish language lessons due to the high demand of workers in the labor market. According to the head of the district education department, Larisa Koval, before, Polish was studied only in the city school number 2, and from the new year they will study at the sanatorium boarding school and Korsunskaya school. “The demand for this language is constantly growing. Many graduates come to study in Polish universities. At first they thought to invite to the area of the Polish volunteer. However, it did not work out. Therefore, we began to look for teachers here. We already have two teachers. ”
Demand is formed by parents of children who go to Poland to earn money. From 10 to 25% of the residents of Cherkasy region of working age at least once went to Poland to earn money. According to official data, the 342 person is registered in the district employment center. This is the lowest figure in recent years. Most of the unemployed have long been employed in Poland. Recently, the number of Ukrainian students who have gone to study at Polish universities has increased dramatically.
By the way, even before the Poroshenkov visa, right after the draconian law voting that took place on 5 in September, a greeting appeared on the tweet of the US Embassy in Ukraine: “Congratulations to Ukraine on the promotion of educational reform, because the contribution to youth development is a guarantee of the future.”
This is precisely the aim of those who impose laws on Ukraine that supplant everything Russian: to make the native mental forget and “free” the territory, where there are less and less conditions and reasons for living and surviving.