The Draft Law ‘On the Principles of the State Language Policy’ is a Significant Step in Ensuring the Democratic Rights and Freedoms

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The Institute of Russian Language and Literature named after N.V Gogol believes that the Draft Law ‘On the principles of the state language policy’ is a significant step in ensuring the democratic rights and freedoms of the Ukrainian citizens.

This Draft Law was initiated by people's deputies of Ukraine Serhiy Kivalov and Vadym Kolesnichenko.


 

This is stated in the expert opinion of V. Zvinyatskovskiy, Doctor of philological sciences, professor, Director of the Institute of Russian Language and Literature named after N.V Gogol of Ukrainian Academy of Russian Studies on the Draft Law ‘On the principles  of the state language policy’ (№ 9073 from 26.08.2011) which was initiated by people's deputies of Ukraine Serhiy Kivalov and Vadym Kolesnichenko.

Particularly, in the expert opinion it is stated: ‘The first and the most important idea of the proposed law is emphasized in the preamble - strengthening the status of the state Ukrainian language is a key factor in creating the national identity of the Ukrainian people, a guarantee of its national and state sovereignty. It is very important that this Draft Law is directed forward a guaranteed strengthening of the status of the Ukrainian language, approving its prospects as one of the most widespread national languages in Europe (by the real media) (Article 6).

The concept of the native language is the most important idea, clearly carried out in all clauses  of the bill, ‘Native language - is the first language the person is captured in early childhood’ (Article 1)

‘It should be noted that the practical use of this correct democratic principle of the definition of the native language can come upon the subjective and objective obstacles, which, anyway shouldn’t embarrass anyone or shouldn’t interfere. Furthermore, their very existence is an argument for the correctness of the letter and spirit of the bill under discussion’.

‘The decisive moment has come in the history of the Ukrainian language. This moment comes earlier or later in the history of any language: when extralinguistic, not linguistic factors determine its fate. Thus, the adoption of the Draft Law, which is now under discussion as the primary law, providing the language policy in the country could be very necessary and important primarily in guaranteeing the security of existence, now and henceforth a necessary and sufficient number of carriers of the correct, uniform, normalized, literary Ukrainian language in Ukraine. That is - for the public to ensure linguistic and general cultural education to those citizens whose native language is not actually coincides with the state, primarily in order to qualitatively (from scratch!) to teach these people the correct model of the state language ‘, - it is stressed in the expert opinion.

‘The mechanisms for determining the need for getting education in a particular language and for an appropriate educational services are clearly fixed up at the Draft Law. (Article 20, Clause 3 - 6, 11).’

'The adoption of this Draft Law (based on comments above) is a significant step forward in ensuring the democratic rights and freedoms of the Ukrainian citizens, in strengthening the status of the Ukrainian language as a state language, in real establishment and development of both - the state - Ukrainian - language and the real multilingualism. This can surely improve and meet the needs of the Ukrainian citizens, in general and language education. That would firstly meet the current European standards and, secondly - the objective conditions and subjective needs’, - scientists summing up.

Vadym Kolesnichenko, people's deputy of Ukraine, co-author of the Draft Law, expressed his sincere thanks to everybody who worked constructively on changes to the Draft Law ‘On the principles of the state language policy’, as well as on the analysis of its rules in order to improve

‘I would like to assure you that the objective and the legal observations must be taken into account when drafting the Draft Law in parliament’, - the people's deputy said. ‘Sincere thanks to scientists for whom science, the rule of law and human rights are above political expediency’ - summarized Vadym Kolesnichenko.

We’d like to admit that the Draft Law ‘On the principles of the state language policy’ earlier was also supported by the National Linguistic University, the Ternopil National Pedagogical University, the National Pedagogical University, named after M.P. Drahomanov, Odessa National University named after I.I.Mechnikov, community organizations of Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine, and approved by representatives of 18 organizations of national minorities of Ukraine in their letter to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.

 

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