http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/leschenko/5330871a0c151/
Here is Leshchenkos blog for today. He found a Regions document.
The language issue is here too, one of the Black Hole's demands.
On Monday, 24 March 2014, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> This is a red herring issue for Putin.
>
> The reality is that in Ukraine where 80% of the population learned
> Russian as a first or second language during Soviet times.
>
> Now in Ukraine from east to west, from north to south, since independence
> students learn a second language, No. 1 is English, No. 2 is German, No. 3
> is Spannish No. 4 is Russian -- so in 20 years time Russian language will
> only be significant in Russia and in Ukraine only with ethnic Russians
> if that.
>
> Eastern Europe has also seen a serious decline in students learning Russian
> where during the Cold War, a significant portion of the population
> did. So the spread of the language is seriously losing ground except
> in Russia, Belarus and some other ex-Soviet states in Central Asia.
>
> This is what is burning Putin's goat.
>
> Russia is a dieing culture and language and he knows it. Add in declining
> birth rates in Russia, they are losing ground.
>
> Thus the need to conquer Ukraine and force them to abandon Ukrainian.
>
>
> Fran Ponomarenko wrote:
> >
> > Truthfully, I have problems with this language business. Ok, ethnic
> > Russians want Russian. I won't get into the whole bit about language of
> > the majority, language of the country, and their reluctance to learn it,
> > which is disrespectful, etc. in Quebec when the Anglos did not want to
> > learn French, they left.
> >
> > But what about ethnic Ukrainians. what is their problem? This part I am
> > having trouble with
> > Can someone help me out.
> >
> > what is Donetsk ethnically? This is the question.
> >
> > Would there be a problem with two languages: Ukrainian, and Russian on an
> > oblast level.?
> >
> > Would that satisfy these folks.
> >
> > Actually, I would be including English also! to kind of move the
> population
> > away from the Russia n sphere. And it is useful for every citizen to know
> > more languages.
> >
> >
> > On Monday, 24 March 2014, <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.unian.ua/politics/900081-golova-donetskoji-
> > > oblradi-movne-pitannya-vje-bilshe-20-rokiv-sutsilna-spekulyatsiya.html
> > >
> > > Even Yanukovich didn't dare do this. This is one of Putin's demands.
> It is
> > > unacceptable.
> > >
> > >
> >
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