DISINFO: The Kyiv authorities want to forbid people in Eastern Ukraine to speak Russian
SUMMARY
Peace must be restored there, people from Eastern Ukraine refuse to live with supporters of Bandera who support Fascism and Nazism. (…) These people speak Russian and want to continue speaking Russian. Ukraine wants to deprive them the right to speak Russian.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation message about the status of Russian language and Nazism in Ukraine.
Ukraine did not propagate the neo-Nazi ideology. The Nazi and Communist ideologies were banned by a Ukrainian law in 2015.
The claim about the language rights of Russians in Ukraine being violated is also false. On April 25 2019, the Verkhovna Rada passed the law 'on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language. Russian, as well as other languages, can be used in private communication, religious ceremonies, press, book publishing etc. The law also allows the use of other languages in the healthcare system and law enforcement.
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