Ukraine officially stops pretending Russian is an "endangered minority language"
It took a while, but Volodymyr Zelenskyy just signed the law stripping the aggressor's language of its cozy "protected" status.
For years, Ukraine was bound by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Under this, the Russian language was treated like some delicate, endangered dialect that needed state-sponsored life support. Yes, the language of the empire trying to erase us was legally grouped with indigenous tongues that actually need protection.
But the absurdity is finally over. Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk announced that the new law officially kicks the "language of the aggressor state" out of this protective club. We are finally aligning European treaties with basic common sense. State protection is for actual minority cultures, not the tool used to justify invasions.
It only took a decade of war to realize that the language with thousands of TV channels, billions in funding, and a nuclear arsenal doesn't exactly need help surviving in Ukraine.
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