World Affairs Journal: Do animals speak Ukrainian?

That’s what Oleksandr Shvets, a traffic cop in Odessa, thinks, having recently told a driver not to speak that “language of calves.” That’s also what a male resident of Donetsk Province thinks, having told Christmas carolers in 2009 that he hates their “language of swine.” And these are only two incidents that happen to have been captured on video. Ukrainian speakers insist that such behavior is all too typical in Ukraine, and especially in its Russian-speaking southeastern provinces. Read the story here.