Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Halya Coynash: Bad news for Moscow on the language front
Demonstrators dressed as zombies take part in a protest outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv demanding a law banning Russian television programmes which they consider to be propaganda on March 17, 2015.
A recent Russian news broadcast added an entirely fictitious
phrase supposedly spoken by Ukraine’s President in the latest of
countless attempts to push the Kremlin line about alleged discrimination
of Russian-speakers. Fiction is needed since reality is not on
Moscow’s side. A survey, for example, has found only 19 percent support for
Russian becoming a State language.
