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The Belgium situation is different because French and Dutch belong to different language families, whereas Russian and Ukrainian are closely related.

Let the epic battle begin! :-)

Not PC map of Ukraine from the link above:
http://lurkmore.so/images/7/77/Podarki.jpg

The "5th Channel" launched an advertising campaign against official recognition of Russian language in Ukraine:

Я хочу розмовляти українською мовою! - YouTube
Єдина державна мова - українська! -...

Nil Ushakov, the mayor of Riga, puts it right:

Sorry, what crimes did Russians commit in Ukraine? Maybe when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire they treated it like subordinate, I don't know. But in the 20th century the Soviet Union actually...

Russian is the state language of the Russian Federation. It is mother tongue of 90% of citizens. On regional level dozens of other languages are officially recognized and used alongside Russian.

This article is Russophobic. It portrays Russians in a very negative light in just about every respect. In the end the author calls Russian "the enemy language". I don't see how it could be "very...

One third of Ukrainian citizens have Russian as their mother tongue. Isn't it unfair not to recognize their native language officially (at least on regional level, as it's proposed)?

The main argument of the opponents is similar to that in Latvia, I think. They fear that Russian would dominate over national language, because it's "bigger". So they prefer to pretend (on official...

Russian parliament is so boring compared to Ukrainian one...
Maybe it's because "Edinaya Rossiya" has Nikolai "Beast from the East" Valuev on its side... :-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HMjISG76ck

The fight is about the proposal to recognize Russian as regional language in 13 out of 27 regions of Ukraine, with more than 10% of native Russian...