Quote Originally Posted by DrBaldhead View Post
The only problems I know for Russian language not being a state language:
- Official documentation is written in Ukrainian. It should be noted that not all papers are required to be written in Ukrainian. Also it's quite possible that some organizations ignore such rules and take documents in Russian anyway.
- Scientific projects. Students are forced to write their projects in Ukrainian which might be slight problem.
- Russian movies dubbed in Ukrainian. Nuff said.
I admit that it might not be an important factor.
Besides, as I might guess, the Russian speaking community that resides in Ukraine can speak perfect Ukrainian, in addition to their knowledge of Russian, and therefore either of the two languages being or not being the official state language is really no big deal for them.