Re: Russia worried about loss of Russian language in former USSR republics

yp11 wrote:
> The status of Russian language in Ukraine is tragic, tragic!
> What a joy. If the Russkies don't like it, Russia is just over the
> border. No one forces them to stay in Ukraine.
>
> In Canada, even though Quebec is just a province, it's only official
> language is French, and if someone wants to live in Quebec, he/she
> better learn French. But Russians living in Ukraine and other CIS
> countries or in the Baltics think that they should be entitled to use
> their own language. They should realize that the time of Imperial
> Russia and of the Evil Soviet Empire are over.
>
> Yuri
>
> http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/10964_language.html
Oh how tragic. :)
I would recommend that in the CIS and former sattelite countries
there should be an official effort to teach the history of Russian
as it relates to that country.
I.e. the history of policies wrt. Russification in the country.
In Ukraine it would be the history of the various anti Ukrainian
language UKASES. In some of the Caucasian countries, it would be
the forced adoption of the Cyrilic alphabet replacing the previous
either latin or arabic.
In addition in Ukraine the students should be taught the history
of the formation of the Russian language and the several reforms
of Russian carried out with the aid of Ukrainian scholars.
--
Rostyk