1. I've been to Ukraine just because I have a misfortune to live there.
2. I don't sound Russian, I am Russian as well as millions of Ukrainian citizens whom your "democratic" state is trying to turn into Ukrainians and forbids to write, to speak and to be educated in their first language (for example, 11 million has Belgium 3 official languages while over 30 million Ukraine has suppressed all the other languages but Ukrainian. BTW, in 3 million Crimea there are also 3 official languages after its return back to Russia).
3. Stop stopping me and the others, stop yourself and you'll do a favor to all the sane world.
You live in Ukraine? Why haven't you moved to Russia if it's so much better there and you feel so oppressed in Ukraine?
That explains a lot.
There's nothing wrong or unusual with a nation educating it's pupils in it's state language. You're not forbidden to write or speak in Russian, that's not true, it's the language on the street in many parts of Ukraine. You presumably watch Ukrainian TV, you'll have noted a majority of programmes are in Russian. The overwhelming majority of newspapers and magazines are in Russian. You will find Russian language books in Ukrainian book stores. Esay is from Chernivtsi, which is in Western Ukraine, yet it appears he/she speaks Russian, how is that? When I'm in Lviv I sometimes hear people speaking Russian, no one threatens or attacks them. Belgium isn't a good comparison, there is no Belgian language and the people there are divided. The population of Ukraine is 45 million, not 30 million, you can't even tell the truth about that.
Ukranian schools have been closed in Crimea and any Ukrainians living there feel threatened as do Tatars, that is an oppressive place to live for non Russians. I was fortunate to visit Crimea in 2011, before the illegal Russian annexation, I wouldn't want to visit it now.
Your Soros nonsense may work with the gullible, but it won't work with me, it appears you've also used the laughable "junta" line in the past too, a classic troll comment.
Well. another example of Ukrainian "democracy" today:
112 Ukraine TV Channel deprived of their digital broadcasting license
Itās useless to talk to you because you keep repeating what Ukrainian Media tells you which doesnāt make any sense but feels normal to you. Army of Sorosā psychologists have been working since the 2014 coup (and heck knows how many years before that) to frame your mind in that way. In your case they succeeded.
Itās NOT normal to have one official language (Ukrainian) when half a country has Russian as the first language. Also there is a large Hungarian community who wants to be able to use their language for official purposes and education and so on. In Soviet times there were a lot of Ukrainian schools and classes for volunteers even in our Eastern parts of Ukraine where almost everybody spoke Russian. Now itās very difficult to get into a Russian classes because there are lots of volunteers and very very very few classes. I can see why Ukrainian schools had to be closed in Crimea: over 90% has Russian as a first language there. If the things were normal and Ukrainian authorities cared about the people (not just how to please Deep State occupants of our lands) a lot of Ukrainian schools would be closed in Eastern parts too just because the people DO NOT want Ukrainian language.
Russia takes a very good care of Crimea: they built a beautiful airport in Simpheropol, a new bridge, the largest in Europe, and so on and on. Were Ukrainian officials happy with such a care about the residents of Crimea which they call āhostages of Russia and occupied landsā? Not even close. Their reaction was: āWe need to blow up that bridge!ā You think itās normal? I think itās criminal and crazy. And if you remember Ukro Nazis who burned the people alive in Odessa (just because they did not support the coup) were openly yelling about āsinking Crimea in bloodā. So, my dear brainwashed friend, Putin did not
annex Crimea,
he saved the lands and the people from massive massacre (as happened in Donbass later) without even one shot. It was just genius. Too bad he left our Eastern lands (historically Russian) to be destroyed by ādemocraticā Ukraine.
The Crimean Tatar language is recognized in the 2014 Constitution as a State language of the Republic of Crimea alongside Russian and Ukrainian.
https://www.osce.org/permanent-council/382747?download=true
Crimea referendum reflected peopleās will ā French delegation head
Thierry Mariani: Better to be Crimean Tatar than Russian in Baltics
P.S. Thanks for telling us where ESay lives, he tried to keep it as a secret for a long long time.
Why didn't you answer my question?
You think Russia doesn't close anti Putin TV channels or tries to censor them?
Police raid Russian TV channel as it covers Moscow protest | Reporters without borders
Such comments make you sound like someone from the St Petersburg troll factory, exactly the same comments, exactly the same cliches. I've heard them all before. I care nothing about Soros or his opinions.
It is normal, Russia is the only official state language of Russia, despite many languages being spoken in the Russian Federation.
Russian isn't oppressed in Ukraine, it's protected.
"According to Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine the state has an obligation to ensure the comprehensive development and functioning of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of social life throughout Ukraine while guaranteeing the free development, use and protection of the Russian language and other languages of national minorities of Ukraine."
The same applies to Hungarian. Is it wrong for people to speak their state language? The reason Ukrainian schools closed in Crimea is because Ukrainian people were persecuted there and forced to leave. "Deep State Occupants" Straight from the Kremlin propaganda handbook. Some people in Eastern Ukraine do want Ukrainian language schools.
That's one side of the story, things aren't so great for many Crimean residents. The tourist industry was decimated when Russia occupied it. What care? Russia has stolen it's land! Odesa, I've debated this on other forums, the story of that isn't the same as you Russian propagandists like to claim, I mean the story leading up to it where Russians from Crimea attacked Ukrainians who were taking part in a peace march.
Putin did annexe Crimea using extreme propaganda to do it. They're not your lands, you're the invaders.
Tatars are persecuted in Crimea, the want Ukraine back in Crimea.