Although Russia repeatedly claims that Russian speakers were under threat in Crimea and Donbas, it is the Ukrainian language that has come under attack as soon as Russia took actual or effective control, as well as Ukrainian history and culture. In the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘republics’ [DPR, LPR], there are no Ukrainian classes anymore, with the Ukrainian language taught as a subject for one hour a week. This is very clearly a ‘Russification’ program, with the textbooks for schools being brought into occupied Donbas by the so-called ‘humanitarian’ convoys from Russia.
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Halya Coynash: In occupied Donbas Ukrainian language removed from schools
Children of a first grade listen to a teacher during a lesson at school on Oct. 11, 2017.
