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  1. “This ideology has become the basis for broad practical measures in various spheres and should, as envisioned by its authors, not only provoke hatred, but also destroy all Russians and Russian-speaking people, including their families and their children. A clear call for this outcome is being made on Ukrainian television, in Ukrainian online spaces and across social networks. I sincerely thank the Council for its attention and for the opportunity to address such a high-level forum.”

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

  2. “Today, there are attempts to take those relics and the monastery itself away from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is a part of the Russian Orthodox Church. I could provide many more facts related to the Russophobic policies of the Ukrainian authorities, which have become widespread and reached their peak in 2022 and 2023, but their underlying message is evident. Ukraine has recently seen systematic attempts in various areas — in education, culture, religion and everyday life in general — to promote an ideology of hatred for everything Russian: hatred of Russians, of Russian-speaking people, as well as hatred of anyone who is somehow linked with Russia.”

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

  3. “On March 10, a State organization, the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, governed by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, asked them in writing to leave the premises, giving them until the end of March to do so. It was allegedly due to violations of the agreement for the donated right to use the monastery, but no specific violations were mentioned by the National Preserve in any official documents sent to the monastery. The monastery in question is one of the oldest in Orthodox Christianity and was founded in the tenth century. It is where the relics of over a hundred Russian saints repose, including those of Ilya Muromets, a hero of Russian epic literature, and a monk, Nestor the Chronicler, the author of the first written source of Russian history.”

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  4. “The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a self-governed part of the Russian Orthodox Church and has great autonomy, but their ties have become the pretext for systematic attacks on the former. Since the 1990s the churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have been regularly seized. Local authorities in different regions of Ukraine condone such seizures and ban those churches’ activities at their level. In addition, monks and clergy belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have been forced to leave the most important holy site of the Russian and global Orthodox faith, a monastery dating back almost a thousand years, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.”

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

  5. “It was Russian-speaking residents of those cities who had gathered money for those monuments commemorating the writer, and now, 100 years later, those monuments were demolished in Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv. In total, monuments to Pushkin were dismantled in more than 20 cities in various regions of the country. Another area with human rights implications in which the Ukrainian authorities are introducing Russophobic practices in a very ingenious way is religion. The largest religious denomination in the country is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has the largest number of monasteries and churches and clergymen, thereby uniting millions of parishioners all over Ukraine.”

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  6. “In February of this year, a monument to General Vatutin, who liberated the Ukrainian capital from the Nazis during the Second World War, was demolished in Kyiv. People would bring flowers to that monument every year on the anniversary of the city’s liberation. Its demolition was an obscene and barbaric act, as the monument had been erected on the site of the grave containing the general’s remains, and their current location is unknown. Another manifestation of massive Russophobia in Ukraine is that monuments to Alexander Pushkin, a great writer, known to the whole world for his literary classics, were also destroyed. Pushkin visited many cities in the east of Ukraine, and a monument was erected to him in the late nineteenth century.”

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  7. “Last June, the Ministry of Culture announced that a De-Russification Council would be created, charged with considering the destruction of monuments to prominent figures from Russian culture, any major national historical events connected to Russia and the Russian people, and Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War. During that campaign in November in Mykolayiv, unknown persons blew up a monument to those who had died in Ukraine during the Second World War — an obelisk called “The Motherland”. At the same time, in Uzhhorod, a Second World War monument, “Ukraine to the Liberators”, which is one of the world heritage sites of Ukraine and is dedicated to the Soviet soldiers who freed the city during that same war, was also destroyed.”

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  8. “I will return to the issue of Russophobia among Ukrainian authorities, but I would like to first talk about other inhuman manifestations of Russophobia in Ukraine. In 2014, after the majority of Russians and Russian-speakers held a referendum in Crimea and decided to reunify with Russia, the Ukrainian authorities completely cut off the supply of fresh water through the North Crimean Canal. In fact, the actions of the Kyiv authorities triggered a humanitarian catastrophe. Now I will return to systematic Russophobia in Ukraine in the sphere of culture. Starting in 2014, Ukraine began the process of the mass renaming of street names and cities and the destruction of monuments related to the Russian and Soviet period of Ukraine’s history.”

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  9. “In October, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, who heads the body that imposes sanctions against its own citizens without court decisions, said that the Russian language should disappear altogether from the territory of Ukraine. That has already begun in a number of educational facilities, where everyone, including students, the faculty and even technical specialists, are not allowed to speak Russian during recess periods or after working hours. That Russophobic decision was also taken in January 2023 by the largest institution of higher education in Kyiv, namely the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. It is being supported by the Language Ombudsman of Ukraine — this position was created in the country after 2014 — who promised to broaden and introduce that practice into other universities of Ukraine.”

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  10. “Starting in 2022, Ukrainian authorities locally decided on a complete ban on the study of the Russian language. In November of last year, Kyiv eliminated Russian from the curriculums of kindergartens and schools. The same ban took place in Mykolayiv, which is a major regional centre of the east, and in the Odesa oblast. The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine is planning to remove approximately 100 million Russian books from libraries — of those, 20 million had already been destroyed by the beginning of 2023. The books are not being burned defiantly, as the Nazis did in the 1930s in Germany. Instead, they are being thrown in the garbage or recycled as commercial packaging.”

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  11. “Russian is the second working language of the country, after Ukrainian. However, over the past 20 years, the sphere for the use of the Russian language has been deliberately reduced. It began with the 2006 banning of voice-overs and foreign movies in Russian and discriminatory quotas against the Russian language introduced in the media throughout the country, including the Russian-speaking regions of the east. That process has logically moved into the sphere of education. Higher education in Ukraine has been taught in Ukrainian only since it became mandatory in 2014. In September 2020, all Russian-language schools in Ukraine changed to Ukrainian as the language of instruction. That happened after the entry into force of a law on education.”

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  12. “According to the recent census in Ukraine, Russians families numbered in the millions, and the Russian language was spoken natively by nearly a third of the population, or more than 14 million citizens. According to the only census conducted in Ukraine in 2001, at the time, Russians accounted for over 17 per cent of the population, or more than 8 million people. According to the same census, those who called Russian their native language accounted for nearly a third of the population, or more than 14 million Ukrainian citizens. The truth of the linguistic situation is that there are far more who speak Russian in their everyday lives and consider it to be their native language. According to sociological studies undertaken in 2020, more than a half — 53 per cent — of the population speak Russian either constantly or often.”

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  13. “Among the characteristics of this phenomenon invented in Ukraine, the deputies included “self-glorification of Russia and the Russian people with the goal of forced oppression and/or denial of existence of other nations”. These apparent lies being told about Russians is supposed to cause — not only in Ukraine, but also in other countries — open hostility and hatred towards Russia and Russians and become an instrument to awaken and to cultivate Russophobia. Incidentally, that is already happening in the European Union as well. In March 2022, the Prime Minister of Poland admitted that Russophobia is already mainstream today, and that it is already accepted as an obvious feature of Polish and European politics. But let us turn back to Ukraine, where Russians constitute the second-largest national community, after Ukrainians.”

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  14. “At the same time, a so- called “public service announcement video” appeared in Ukraine with a young girl, wearing a Ukrainian shirt and a circlet of flowers, cutting the throat of a Russian soldier with a sickle while saying: “now it’s our turn to reap a bloody harvest. Every single one of you will die!”. These statements are being implemented today in practice. It can be seen in the execution of Russian prisoners of war by firing squads, in their inhumane treatment, as well as in the shooting of civilians in the Russian-speaking Donbas. Another example is from yesterday, 13 March, when the Verkhovna Rada — the parliament of Ukraine — announced a draft bill that offers to officially define the current political regime in Russia as “Rashism”.”

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  15. “It justifies having their right to life, dignity and free movement curtailed. Let me cite just a few of the most egregious examples of modern Ukrainian Russophobia. In 2022, there were Russophobic and misanthropic calls on Ukrainian television. In a live broadcast, a Channel 24 journalist, Fakhrudin Sharafmal, called for dealing with Russians by destroying their families and children. “If we have to slaughter all your families, I will be in the first ranks to do that. Long live our nation!”, he said, — and it was broadcast live. Ukrainian doctor Gennadiy Druzenko, the head of the mobile hospital project, called for the castration of Russian prisoners of war because, he claimed, “they are cockroaches, not people”.”

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  16. “I am grateful to the Security Council for the opportunity to speak at this meeting. What is Russophobia? Russophobia is a demonstration and an imposition of hostility and hatred against Russians, the Russian people, the Russian State and Russian citizenship. This is done publicly, in media outlets and on the Internet. Russophobia is a rejection of the civilizational status of Russia, Russian culture and carriers of that culture. Russophobia is an ideology that was created and disseminated artificially and purposefully. It justifies dehumanization and genocide of the Russian people, Soviet and Russian citizens, compatriots and Russian-speaking people — anyone who feels that they are Russian or feels connected to Russia, whether by fate or simply because they have sympathy for Russia.”

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  17. “My name is Kirill Vyshinsky. I was born and raised in Ukraine and graduated from university in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk as a philologist and teacher of Russian language and literature. For more than 25 years, I worked as a journalist in various Ukrainian media outlets. In 2014, I became editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian website RIA Novosti Ukraine — it was published in Russian. In 2018, I was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine on concocted charges, including high treason. I spent almost a year and a half in jail, after which a Ukrainian court, which did not confirm any of the charges against me, released me, which allowed me to leave Ukraine for Russia in 2019. Today, I still work as a journalist and am a member of the Russian Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights.”

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