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

Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj wrote:

> 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
Oh one more item which I forgot in the previous post.
Each of the CIS countries should negotiate reciprocal language
rights with Russia. i.e If say Ukraine were to make Russian
an official language, then Russia makes Ukrainian an official
language, without any weasle clauses or restrictions.
Any such reciprocity to be subject to cancelation for non compliance.
Thus Russia might be faced with having multiple country wide
official languages.
--
Rostyk