Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has called on the Prosecutor General's Office to open a criminal case into what he views as language- and ethnicity-based discrimination of people by Ihor Slyunkov, the head of the supervisory board of the OJSC Pavlohradzhytlobud construction company in the town of Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region.
Yushchenko’s spokesperson Iryna Vannykova said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Friday that Slyunkov had initiated the discharge of the company’s CEO and more than ten managers for speaking in the Ukrainian language at work and positioning the company as a Ukrainian producer.
