– Ukraine Interactive map – Ukraine Latest news on live map – liveuamap.com Kurt Volker:If Russia cares about Russian-speakers in Ukraine, the best thing it can do is stop its occupation of Donbas and bring peace for Ukraine.

The prominence of Russian-speakers in Ukraine’s frontlines and higher political echelons is, by Ukrainian standards, unremarkable, and would have passed largely unnoticed by Ukrainians themselves if the Kremlin hadn’t claimed that a genocide of Russian-speakers was underway.

Protection of the rights and freedoms of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine and ity population through the preservation and further development of Russian language and culture, languages and cultures of national ities; protection of the canonical Orthodox Church, religions and beliefs of native population of Ukraine, as well as their cultural, information and social environment.

The Kremlin said on Friday it would defend Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine politically and diplomatically from any activity against them amid a historic Ukrainian split from the Russian Orthodox Church. Jump to map. Moskva, Moscow#Central and Eastern Europe.

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Nevertheless, the ongoing conflict with Russia has placed the long-term development of the Russian language in Ukraine under question. With many of Ukraine’s largest cities still predominantly Russian-speaking, the future of the language in Ukraine is an issue of huge strategic importance.

"Russian speaker" quite often means "Russian-only speaker". Dare to claim that I have never seen a single "Ukrainian-only speaker". Tendency : Russian dominance is drastically decreasing since the moment of Russian invasion to Ukraine’s Crimea and Donets’k/Luhans’k regions.

Ukraine has entire Russian-speaking regions. I personally was born and grew up in one of them. This became possible (as well as widely-spoken Surzhick) because of the harsh russification policy of the Soviet Union. It was a real challenge to not know Russian in the Soviet period.

Russian politicians and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine love the myth that the Ukrainian language is a big problem for people living in southeastern Ukraine.

Russian politicians and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine love the myth that the Ukrainian language is a big problem for people living in southeastern Ukraine. After the country turned westward following the Euromaidan revolution, Russian President Vladimir Putin considered the protection of Russian speakers an adequate reason for invading Ukraine, leading some Ukrainians to urge to …