Thread: Members of Ukrainian parliament fight over Russian language

Originally Posted by Hanna

The BBC wrote the following about the language situation in Ukraine today.
See highlighted text just above. CIA Factbook, hmmm....
Is 24% the correct figure? I

When have you started trusting the CIA?!! And, especially, their 'facts'?!! And also the BBC!! When have you started to trust those enemies of the people?! It's all a lie. There's no language problem in Ukraine. People there are free to speak lots of languages at any time they want and it's not up to the BBC and the CIA to ignite the perfectly peaceful situation that is not bothering any person in Ukraine. All the protesters are paid by the CIA and the BBC is just happy to report on the havoc they themselves imagined. Those lazy people who posed as the 'protesters' do neither work nor study, but were just paid enough to show up for two minutes, make a picture, and go home.

Originally Posted by Hanna

The BBC wrote the following about the language situation in Ukraine today.



See highlighted text just above. CIA Factbook, hmmm....
Is 24% the correct figure? I

No. The number is certainly underestimated.

Ok, clever point Croc.............

I can understand both sides in the conflict, but I find it hard to sympathize with denying old people the right to read a prescription in a language that they have always used, in a country where they have always lived... Or the right of somebody on trial to be tried in his own language, in his native country...

I think they are right to protect the status of Ukrainian, but it should not be at the expense of near human-rights violations like the ones that I mentioned, that are also mentioned in the BBC article.

Here is an American site which is trying to present the facts, sans agenda as far as I can tell. Interesting reading.
Ukraine Languages: Dealing with Ukraine's Bilingual Society

Originally Posted by Hanna

I can understand both sides in the conflict, but I find it hard to sympathize with denying old people the right to read a prescription in a language that they have always used, in a country where they have always lived...

There's no conflict. The conflict is made up by the CIA to ignite the situation and establish new NATO bases on the historic European soil. The old people have no trouble reading their medical prescription in Ukrainian. It's just one of them - Lyudmila Nyronova, 69 - was paid a few dollars to say the opposite. And who can read the physicians' prescriptions anyways? Be them written in Satanic, that would make no difference to the ordinary people who make up the majority of the nation.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Ok, clever point Croc.............

It's just the 'ad extra absurdum' is very popular in MR this summer...