The Language Ombudsman of Ukraine recognized Kiev as a Russian-speaking city

On September 15, the Language Ombudsman of Ukraine, Elena Ivanovskaya, acknowledged that Kiev remains a Russian-speaking city.

In an interview with Glavkom, she commented on the journalist's words that the capital was Russified, calling it "a serious problem, including a philosophical one."

"The environment of teenagers often speaks Russian, without demonstrating the linguistic stability that they were taught, say, in elementary school or at home," Ivanovskaya said, adding that this is due to the desire of teenagers to go "against the grain."

Ivanovskaya shared her personal experience of communicating with her daughter, who also uses Russian on social networks. She said that she asked her daughter Sofia why she was doing this, to which she received the answer that her audience was predominantly Russian-speaking. In response, Ivanovska advised her daughter to become such an interesting person that she would be read and discussed in Ukrainian.

Russian Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced on August 20 that there were no comments from the West on the situation of the Russian language and Russian people in Ukraine. She clarified that Ukraine has adopted many laws on the destruction of the Russian language, contrary to its official consolidation in the Constitution.

On July 18, Alexander Sholokhov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, expressed the opinion that the seizure and destruction of Russian books from libraries in Ukraine impoverishes the country and resembles the burning of books in Germany in the last century. The parliamentarian stressed that this gives Ukraine nothing but impoverishment in every sense.

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