Ukraine/Language

• Sergey Lavrov: Ukraine adopted “laws banning the Russian language.”, false

• Singling out and discriminating ethnic Russians or Russian-speaking people in former colonies is just not a real thing. It never was.

• This Ukrainian presidential candidate is challenging language divisions with a message of unity

• Ukrainian Constitution

• Pundits on Russian state TV begrudgingly acknowledge that Russian-speakers in Ukraine they supposedly came to "liberate" are actually fighting against invading Russian troops. Instead of leaving, they advocate breaking Ukraine's will to resist by erasing Ukraine's modern history.

• Even Russian-speaking Ukrainians don’t want to be evacuated to Russia or Belarus. The research shows that Russian speakers across much of Ukraine identify as Ukrainian, March 7, 2022 (archive)

• Okay, fellas, there is a lot of nonsense takes about language in Ukraine flying around in the foreign infospace. “Oppressed” russian speakers? Everybody speaks Ukrainian? Sometimes it’s both, yet neither at the same time? How is this possible? Let’s discuss. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1636080375087734789.html https://liberpedia.net/threads/Jeanosis-Ukrainian-Language.pdf

https://twitter.com/Anyarude/status/1636655118048215041

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1636655118048215041.html

https://liberpedia.net/threads/Anya-Ukrainian-Language.pdf

• What language do Ukrainians speak in Kyiv? Russian propaganda says people afraid to speak Russian in fear of prosecution. Ukrainians say Kyiv is multilingual and people are free to speak any language. I took a walk this morning and counted.

• The Russian propaganda argues that Ukrainians are afraid to speak Russian and there is an ethnic conflict. I took a walk in Poltava and recorded which language people speak. Similar to Kyiv it is 50/50 and dialect. People are free to speak whatever; there is no tension.

https://twitter.com/joelw_762/status/1669673539283177477

• https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1690272620078403584

• if someone to this day continues to say "the ukraine" and "kiev", they are doing it on purpose. they *have* seen that it upsets ukrainians, and they are doing it exactly with that intent in mind

• This is the story of two Ukrainian orthography editions published in 1928 and 1933 – and everything horrible that happened in between. It's also a lesson in Soviet/Russian colonialism, showcasing how Moscow weaponizes language to conquer and dominate other nations.

• How the “Ukrainian speakers vs Russian speakers” dichotomy gets traction is still bewildering. Every westerner understands Irish people speaking English with zero desire to be English. Swiss not wanting to be German etc. But ofc Russian speaking Ukrainians all yearn to be invaded