Russian language in Ukraine
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Russian is the most common first language in the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine and the city of Kharkiv, and the predominant language in large cities in the eastern and southern portions of the
Members of a Russophone association supporting the 2006 decision of the Kharkiv City Council to make the Russian language official at local level.
Party of Regions 2012 parliamentary election campaign poster in Crimea stating "Russian: (upgrade it) from a regional language to the second official (state) language"
Russophone activists collect signatures in support of introducing the Russian language as regional in Odesa, 2007
Oleg Ladyzhensky and Dmitry Gromov, two Russophone Ukrainian co-authors, were named Europe's best science fiction writers in 2006 by ESFS
Language policy in Ukraine
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The language policy in Ukraine is based on its Constitution, international treaties and on domestic legislation. According to article 10 of the Constitution, Ukrainian is the official language of Ukra
Activists protesting the adoption of the law on 24 May 2012
Participants of a hunger strike against the law in July 2012
Poroshenko showing the law signed. Chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Andriy Parubiy is on the left
A street poster in support of the 2019 language law: "Stand up for the language".