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  1. “Of course, as a result of this, people suffered, and there was mass destruction. Very often, the many Western politicians who came to Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka for photo opportunities talked about how they were going to rebuild those cities. Somehow a year has passed, but not a single cent has been allocated. Of course, people in Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka are now erecting barriers on the roads so that those European, American and British politicians remember them — but, for some reason, nobody is listening to them. And for some reason, everyone is saying that it was not NATO artillery that was used to shell those cities. This is, certainly, a pure lie. That is just a comment from a Ukrainian citizen.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  2. “Mr. Snyder asked for a comment from a representative of Ukraine. I am representative of the Ukrainian people, i am a Ukrainian citizen. I am the head of a political party that consists of tens of thousands of Ukrainians — a party that was banned by Zelenskyy’s regime because it is an opposition party that stands for peace and unity with Slavic peoples. Apparently, Mr. Snyder represents the countries of NATO, which, regrettably, are also a party to the conflict in Ukraine. He spoke a lot about Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka. I simply wish to remind Mr. Snyder that Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka are the cities that suffered as a result of shelling by the artillery provided by NATO countries while the Russian forces were there. Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka were regularly shelled using NATO projectiles and weapons.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  3. “All that is a sign and manifestation of linguicide. The Russian language is being systematically destroyed, creating conditions in which people are forced to give up communicating in their native language. The identity of millions of people is being erased. That is not acceptable in the twenty-first century.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  4. “A protocol on imposing fines was made public recently, on 31 January. It was decided to fine a saleswoman in a perfume shop, who, at the request of a customer, had the audacity to translate the Ukrainian inscription on a box into Russian. She was then insulted by a female customer for having used Russian. The same customer filed a complaint with a specifically established repressive body — the Office of the Ukrainian State Language Protection Commissioner. The saleswoman was fined $260. In early February, blogger Ruslana Bortnikova, who worked as a make-up artist in Odesa, was fined for Russian-language content on her Instagram. The woman had been recording her posts for her friends on social media in Russian, but that did prevent these “language inspectors” from finding them and fining her.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  5. “At the same time, the law allows for the use of English and languages of States members of the European Union in such areas. There is a deliberate policy of discrimination against the Russian language. That policy is also fully supported by NATO countries and, of course, put into effect by President Poroshenko and now President Zelenskyy. The use of the Russian language is prohibited by law. Those who violate the law are subject to administrative proceedings. They are fined. Fines of up to $230 are levied for the first offence and up to $460 for a second violation. Just to give an idea of what such money means to Ukrainians, I remind Council members that an average monthly pension in Ukraine amounts to $60. The fines are imposed not only on State and local officials, but also on ordinary citizens. Here is an example of the latter.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  6. “The logical continuation of that policy was the adoption of the law on ensuring the use of the Ukrainian language as the State language. That law has angered Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, Czech and many other ethnic communities in Ukraine. But the Russian and Russian-speaking communities suffered the brunt of the law. The law completely excludes the Russian language from labour relations, education, science, culture, television and radio broadcasting, the print media, book publishing, the use of computer programmes and websites, public events, sport, services, telecommunications and office work. In other words, Russian is excluded from all areas of life, leaving citizens only with the possibility to use Russian in private communication.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  7. “Since 1992, the scope for the use of the Russian language has been gradually shrinking. The Russian language has been displaced from the State authorities and local government, even in places where Russians and Russian-speaking citizens were an absolute majority. I am talking about the Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, the Crimea and other places. Despite parental protests, Russian-speaking schools were switched to Ukrainian as the language of instruction. At the same time, the quality of Russian- language teaching dropped, as the State discriminated against teachers using the Russian language by paying them lower salaries. The Russian language was also displaced from higher education in the same way.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  8. “All of that is happening in Ukraine, not as some sort of excess, but as the deliberate State policy supported by the NATO-backed regime of Zelenskyy, who has betrayed the Ukrainian people. As a result, since 2014, a civil war has erupted across our territory, with the language issue playing a central role. Indeed, the discrimination against the Russian language is one of the main triggers of armed confrontation, which, after many years, eventually became a new cold war between the United States and Russia. Now the hot phase of that conflict is under way in Ukraine. As of today, based on the legislation in force, at least 30 per cent of Ukraine’s citizens are deprived of the opportunity to use their own language in practically all areas of daily life. This is a gross violation of the Constitution of Ukraine.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  9. “In 1967, the report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, issued in Ottawa, Canada, defined linguicide as any act aimed at the full or partial destruction of a language or of the establishment of barriers to the natural development of a language or dialect, such as the physical destruction of members of a community who speak a certain language or dialect, the adoption of repressive measures aimed at impeding the natural development of a language or a dialect, the intentional creation of conditions in which a bilingual society is compelled to switch to monolingualism, bans on the use of a language in schools and the media against the will of a specific ethnolinguistic group, or the failure to provide moral or material assistance to an ethnolinguistic group in which the members are attempting to preserve their language and culture.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  10. “When drafting the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, approved by the General Assembly in 1948 (resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948), the United Nations recognized linguicide as a special case.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  11. “Many videos illustrating this situation are available on the Internet. Considering all the foregoing, I, as a citizen of Ukraine, often have to listen to absurd lies — pure and simple — promoted by the Zelenskyy dictatorship, namely, that the Russian language is not being subject to persecution. However, notwithstanding Zelenskyy’s claim that he himself belongs to the Russian-speaking population and that there is no discrimination against the use of the Russian language, in actual fact and under the law, we are seeing a situation that is diametrically opposed to that claim. This is precisely why, in the situation in Ukraine, it is appropriate to use the term “linguicide”. Linguicide comprises prohibitive measures or other actions designed to destroy another language.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  12. “I ask everybody who is listening to my statement just to imagine not being able to write in their own language — in English, French, or Spanish, whatever it is. This is exactly the situation millions of Ukrainians are facing today. Furthermore, I have personally encountered discrimination against my native Russian language, when I was defending myself in court. The judges and the prosecutors told me I had to use the Ukrainian language, which is not my native language. In this way, my right to protection was violated. In Ukraine, in the territory of Ukraine under the control of NATO and the Zelenskyy regime, in many instances, we see that even humanitarian assistance is denied to Ukrainian citizens in need if they do not speak to those providing humanitarian aid in the Ukrainian language.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  13. “The Russian language is the native language of millions of Ukrainians, but it is banned from all aspects of social life in Ukraine. It is also illegal to teach children and raise them in the Russian language. It is not permitted to teach Russian in school. In addition, Russian-speaking people are subject to persecution, and the language itself is being discredited by the Zelenskyy regime. These are facts. In Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians who speak and think in Russian cannot write correctly in Russian. I myself was born and raised in Kyiv. In school there simply was no Russian language. I grew up during the first wave of Ukrainization, so after completing school and university, I could not, in fact, write properly in Russian and had to learn to do it later in life.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  14. “It is impossible to imagine, yet, as we can see, thanks to the law that was signed by Poroshenko and that, in fact, has already been implemented by Zelenskyy, such barbarism is happening in Ukraine right now. In 2021 alone, some 300 schools and more than 600 classes with instruction in Russian were dissolved, despite the fact that, in public surveys, more than 30 per cent of Ukraine citizens said that they were in favour of studying the Russian language and over 70 per cent wanted to see Russian language study in schools. But the local budgets for 2022–2023 were not funded with the money to finance Russian classes. The right to speak in one’s native language is an inalienable human right. But in Ukraine, as we have seen, human rights are simply banned.”

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  15. “Therefore, under the Zelenskyy dictatorship regime, starting on 1 September 2020, the Russian language was banned in schools; on 16 January 2021, it was banned in the sphere of public services; on 16 July 2021, it was banned in theatres and movie theatres; on 16 January 2022, it was banned in the media and publishing; and starting on 16 July 2022, the use of Russian language is now subject to fines. To implement these fines, a special State structure, the Office of the Commissioner for the Protection of the Ukrainian Language, was established. All of this is happening in the twenty-first century. Just imagine the Swiss Government fining someone for using the French language. Or imagine Spain fining someone for using the Catalonian language. Imagine Russia fining someone for using the Ukrainian language.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  16. “Following the coup d’état organized by the United States Embassy in Ukraine in 2014, the 2012 Languages Law, which regulated the use of the Russian language in all spheres of public life in accordance with article 10, part 3, of the Ukrainian Constitution, was abrogated without repealing any of guarantees for Ukrainian as the State language. After the coup d’état, the Poroshenko regime immediately adopted a new law on language. It was called “On the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a State language”. This law affected the Russian language and national minority languages, all of which were simply repressed. The entry into force of various provisions of the law was extended to 2024 with the clear aim of stifling civil protests against the discrimination against the Russian language.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source

  17. “I thank the Security Council for giving me the opportunity to take the floor and speak on behalf of the tens of millions of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine. I also thank the Russian Lawyers’ Association that works with our team to help refugees who have come to Russia. My briefing is dedicated to the issue of discrimination against Russian-speaking Ukrainians. The Ukrainian Constitution enshrines the right to develop the Russian language, but the criminal Zelenskyy regime has placed itself above the law.”

    2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source