Under the Verkhovna Rada that day held a protest of “don’t touch language”. Activists oppose the bill providing for the transition of pupils with 5 on 11 classes of Russian schools in the Ukrainian language of training in three years. The fact that Russian-language schools and Ukrainian can go on from September 1 this year, while students who are trained in the languages of the EU, only in 2023. MP from the “Servants of the people” Maxim Buzhansky proposed to equalize the rights of students and translate all educational institutions in Ukrainian at the same time, which angered supporters of the former President of Petro Poroshenko.
In the end, the session of the Parliament was closed, and not putting to a vote the question of the postponement of Ukrainization of Russian schools. Action on the question of the education system was quite heated and led to a clash with the police. The building of the Verkhovna Rada came to the supporters of Poroshenko and a number of nationalists.
for Two days they demanded to withdraw the bill, which was given a reprieve by ukrainisatsiya schools. Some even tried to bring firewood and light a “symbolic fire”, but the police, the fire gave. In the end, the audience was content with the lighting of flares, and someone brought a portrait of President Vladimir Zelensky with a bullet in his forehead. Come to the meeting and former speaker of the Parliament Andrei Parubiy, he assured that the Ukrainian language brings people together and no split occurred.
He Zelensky, who during the election campaign ensured that the controversial bill will be reviewed now is silent. Now he gets both from nationalists and Russian-speaking part of Ukraine.
the Situation “MK” commented Ukrainian politicians.
Konstantin Bondarenko, Director of the Fund “Ukrainian politics”:
For Poroshenko, this protest was a rehearsal before the autumn performances of the opposition. He looked how many you can take people to the streets. And I have to say that while not a lot of people, and organizational capabilities – not so much. But in General the question of language decides not Parliament, but the constitutional court, and that there will be consideration of bill as amended by the Deputy Novinsky for compliance with the Constitution.
Mikhail Pogrebinsky, head of the Center for political and conflict studies:
the constitutional court can abolish these discriminatory rules, but still no movement in this direction no. The process has begun, but it can last a very long time. The statement of the Venice Commission were to eliminate the discrimination of the Russian language compared to the languages of the EU. But any alleged infringement of the Ukrainian language is a hysterical reaction of the nationalists and those who bet that voter.
In the current context��AI Poroshenko is interested in this process. He wants to present himself as a leader of the opposition, to make it more difficult to put in jail. The mass of people who are fighting on the front lines, Russian nationalists do not care. They just want to squeeze everything Russian.
with regard to Zelensky, that he is nothing to wait on this issue is impossible. His representative in the constitutional court has already stated that there is no contradiction can not see and remarks he does not. Another thing is that Zelensky may not want publicly to Express on this issue because he is afraid of the nationalists. But not to publicly give the command in the faction to vote on the bill he can. Although this is unlikely.
