Ivano-Frankivsk, March 10 (Interfax-Ukraine) - All-Ukraine Union Svoboda has started to form a national opposition to the power, Oleksandr Sych, the Deputy Party's Head and the Chairman of Ivano-Frankivsk regional Svoboda organization has said at a press conference in Ivano-Frankivsk on March 7.
"Today the event entitled "Join the national opposition!" has started around Ukraine," he said.
He also said Svoboda held mass rallies in some Ukrainian cities on March 5, 2010 after President Viktor Yanukovych had said he could annul the decree awarding the Hero of Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych.
Sovoda also began the rally to protect the Ukrainian language, Sych said.
"If Yanukovych said that the second national language, the Russian language, could be introduced then we clearly understand that giving the Russian language the status of the second national language is the same as lowering the status of the Ukrainian language..," Sych said.
He also added that Svoboda is gathering signatures to a letter from party’s member Iryna Farion to Yanukovych regarding the protection of the Ukrainian language.
