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Voice of America: Ukraine’s language fight may backfire on Yanukovych

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Aug. 10, 2012, 8:06 a.m. | Ukraine abroad — by James Brooke

The rally to protect Ukrainian language is scheduled for Aug 24.
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Lviv — Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law that restores many privileges to Russian, a language that was favored in the Soviet era. 

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Andrew Colias Aug. 10, 2012, 9 a.m.    

As a historian, it has always saddened me that Russian and Ukrainian nationalists hold definitions of nationality so narrow that they are unable to allow a broader identity that can allow for their thousand years of shared religion and culture, and five hundred years of shared history when they lived, worked, fought, and died for a common polity. The 19th century empire bungled it then, and the 21st century Kiev and Moscow are bungling it now. Oh, well, I suppose being neither Russian nor Ukrainian my opinion does not matter.

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IvanovPetrovSidorov Aug. 10, 2012, 1:24 p.m.    

At least it's not as bad as in Northern Ireland. We are not at each other's throats yet, although that is the prerogative of the parliamentarians in the Rada.

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Dirk Aug. 11, 2012, 3:19 a.m.    

"Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse!"

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AL BALA Aug. 25, 2012, 3:12 a.m.    

In the Donetsk region nine cable operators disabled TVi

http://tvi.ua/video/na-donechchyni-9-kabelnykh-operatoriv-vymknuly-tvi.html

PS At the above link, people are making comments from different parts of Ukraine, about closure of TVi in other parts of of Ukraine to this very day.

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