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Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov has said that Ukraine's language legislation should protect people's right to use their native language.

 “The root of the problem is that we should give our people a possibility to live in comfort, not to restrict their right to read books, watch movies in a language that is natural to them,” the premier wrote on his page in Facebook on Friday.

“I hope that after some time more and more people in Ukraine will share the idea that human rights should be in first place and the legislation should be based on this axiom,” he added.