The Kremlin isn’t pleased that the number of Ukrainians who use Russian is declining, but it if far more concerned with something else: the possibility even likelihood that “Russian too obviously is ceasing to be the language of the majority,” according to Kyiv commentator Kateryna Shchetkina.
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Paul Goble: Moscow worried Russian ‘ceasing to be language of majority’ in Ukraine
A woman with a cat dressed in Ukrainian ethnic clothes attends the Vyshyvanka march during celebrations of Kyiv's Days on May 27.
