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Presidential candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that if he wins the presidential election in 2010, the only state language in Ukraine will be Ukrainian as it is foreseen in the present Constitution.

“I won’t give a chance to anybody to discredit and discriminate Russian-speaking citizens so that Ukrainian will retain state language,” he said at the congress of the Front for Changes party held in Kyiv on Saturday.