Deputy head of the Presidential Administration Hanna Herman said it would be a good idea for Ukraine to have three official state languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English.
"This is my untraditional solution to solve the country’s language problem," Herman told Channel 5 TV on Oct. 10.
A key promise of Viktor Yanukovych during the 2010 presidential campaign was to enhance the status of Russian. Draft legislation in parliament proposing the same has been criticized by opposition lawmakers their supporters, some of whom have gone on hunger strike.
According to Herman, making English one of Ukraine’s officials languages would allow the country to kill two birds with one stone.
"We would have three official languages and young people would be more motivated to study foreign languages," Herman said.
