A third of Ukrainian nationals approves of Russian acquiring the status of an official state language of the country according to the poll conducted by the Rating group, RIA Novosti informs.
Seven percent of respondents refrained from the answer, whereas two thirds are negative on this question.
According to experts, a number of people supporting the official status of the Russian language has been growing for last two years. However, the growth is hardly sufficient. Most of the supporters live in eastern or southern parts of Ukraine and in the cities.
It stands to remind that a new law draft About Language has been recently provided for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada. Deputies initiating this draft propose to turn the Ukrainian language into a unified and compulsory language for governmental bodies and local administrations. The law will spread on all high educational institutions as well.
As per the Russkiy Mir Foundation, the Ukrainian parliament supported the legislation initiative limiting the Russian language while TV broadcasting. Now three quarters of movies and TV programmes of Ukrainian television should be broadcasted in the state language. Besides, The Verkhovna Rada prepared a law draft concerning usage of the Russian language in printed mass media sources.
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