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Board Politics & Society
Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
by
DaRude
on 01/08/2022, 02:57:36 UTC
Do you know any other country in the world where language spoken by the majority in the capital is not even a regional language?

US of A

Forced Ukrainization? Why not give people the option and let them decide for themselves?

People decided, via elections. They can decide differently in the next election, but...

Totally not a cultural war, nope not at all
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Ukraine’s parliament on Sunday voted through two laws which will place severe restrictions on Russian books and music as Kyiv seeks to break many remaining cultural ties between the two countries following Moscow’s invasion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-restrict-russian-books-music-latest-cultural-break-moscow-2022-06-19/

... to no one's surprise (except feigned one by kremlinistas here) Russian language is losing its appeal during the invasion so I'm guessing the next election won't be favorable to that effect.

Wrong again https://www.city-data.com/states/District-of-Columbia-Languages.html

Cool justification to ban books. Nothing says you're on a right side of the history like banning books. How many years in prison should ethnic Russian grandma get for smuggling 10 of these for her grand kids? And who listens to music on the radio, should filtering Internet for all Russian content be next?