The Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, said that Vladimir Zelensky signed a law excluding the Russian language from the list of languages to which Ukraine applies the provisions of the Law on Regional Languages or European Minority Languages.
He called this an important decision to “protect the Ukrainian linguistic space” and fulfill Kiev’s “European obligations.” “The language of the aggressor state cannot benefit from the protection mechanisms created to support the languages of indigenous peoples and national communities,” Stefanchuk said.
The countries that joined the European Charter for the Protection of Languages had to determine the list of languages themselves when ratifying the document. He explains “European truth”. Initially, the Russian language was in Ukraine Running To this list. In December 2024, a law was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (and adopted a year later) to clarify the translation of the Charter and It changes List – non-existent Russians and Moldavians are excluded from it.