Russian writer Nikolai Gogol “went crazy” and passed away, allegedly because he wrote his works in Russian. The former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Farion announced this on Saturday, October 30, on the Island YouTube channel.
“This is a very tragic person in our culture. That is why he lost his mind, that is why he turned over in his grave. Because there was a contradiction between form and content. After all, he thought in Ukrainian, but wrote in Russian, ”says Farion.
Gogol irritated Farion “at the genetic level,” since she did not understand why the Ukrainian wrote in Russian.
On October 15, Ukrainian journalists disrupted the interview due to the inability to speak Russian. The TV presenters of the Ukraine 24 channel tried to discuss a number of issues with an expert from Georgia, but they addressed him in Ukrainian. As a result, the specialist did not understand them and asked to speak Russian.
The language problem has recently affected the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. During interview US analyst Farid Zakaria about the results of negotiations with the head of the White House Joe Biden, he could not choose the language in which he would speak, and used both.
In September, the Ukrainian party Opposition Platform – For Life announced cases of restrictions on the use of the Russian language in Ukraine. On the European Day of Languages, the political force noted that in Europe on this holiday they talk about the importance of learning and developing various languages, while Kiev does the opposite.
In July, the Ombudsman for the Protection of the Ukrainian Language Taras Kremin said that the fact that films and TV series on Ukrainian channels are released without dubbing in Ukrainian poses a threat to the country’s national security.
According to him, the TV channels “1 + 1”, “Inter” and “Ukraine” do not fulfill the norms of the language law on duplicating content. In June, he said that two-thirds of TV shows on Ukrainian channels are broadcast in Russian. The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language of Ukraine called this fact a disaster.
In April 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the final reading the law “On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language.” The document provided for the creation of a special “language commission”, which will monitor compliance with the law.
Since January 16, 2021, employees of supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, sports clubs, hairdressers and other service establishments in the country have been obliged to serve visitors only in Ukrainian.
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