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Language law divides Ukraine east, west

Language law divides Ukraine east, west

17 August 2012

Three more local Ukrainian governments in Ukraine’s east and south gave Russian language the status of a regional language, in accordance with a new law signed into effect by President Viktor Yanukovych earlier this month: Donestk oblast, Zaporizhya oblast and the city of Sevastopol. The Odesa City Council was the first government to make Russian a regional language last week. Meanwhile, the western Ukrainian oblast of Ternopil declared the law invalid and sent a request to the Constitutional Court to cancel it.

Brad Wells: As we expected, the language law is being played up by politicians in both sides of the country primarily as a mobilization tool to their core electorates. We continue to see little in the way of tackling more bread & butter issues so far in this election campaign.

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