Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn called utopian a proposal on making the Russian language the second official language in Ukraine.
“You can try to do a lot of various things, although this is a
utopian idea […], considering the alignment of political forces and
expected results that could be after the elections in October 2012,”
Lytvyn said on the Rada television channel on Friday.
Lytvyn made his remark in commenting on the idea of Vadym
Kolesnichenko of the Regions Party that the Ukrainian constitution
should be amended with the Russian language granted official status
along with Ukrainian.
Kolesnichenko said the Regions Party would attempt to legitimize the
Russian language’s status as official through the Constitutional
Assembly. The Regions Party insists that there should be two official
languages in Ukraine, he said.
“We will seek during the Constitutional Assembly’s work that a new
constitution stipulate that there are two official languages in Ukraine,
the Ukrainian and the Russian ones,” he said.
