Quote (Lvivz @ Jun 3 2022 04:14pm)
Where did I say far-right do not exist? Now go look at their vote count, and tell me how with that amount of votes they can rule anything?
And why would Ukraine continue teaching Russian as main language when we have our own national language following the invasion in 2014 into Donbass/Crimea, and second - nobody banned the use of Russian language anywhere, most of Kiev, and Azov fighters use it everyday. Adopting the laws to empower Ukrainian language does not mean russian language was in any way prohibited.
2% of a vote going to the extreme far right is not insignificant, that's actually a fuck ton of people in a big country of 40+million.
You don't ban the Russian language because a significant part of your country uses it everyday. By banning it from public sphere it's basically telling that 30% or so of the population that exclusively uses it has to change. It's extremely illiberal and oppressive when you know such a significant part of the populace uses it.
This is a somewhat old chart but still accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_Ukraine#/media/File:Official_Russian_language_support_in_Ukraine.PNG