“I have no desire to become a soldier in this war of words,” Ukraine’s best-known novelist Andrei Kurkov wrote in 2012. He was reacting to the furor over a law instituted by former president Viktor Yanukovych that elevated Russian to the status of a regional language in Ukraine.
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People sing national anthem as they take part in the Vyshyvanka march during celebrations of Kyiv's Days on May 27ю
