The Ukrainian Week

14 August, 2020	Breaking news	Over 64% believe Ukrainian language should be only national in country This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted jointly by the Socis Center and the Razumkov Center
11 April, 2020	Politics	The language bogeyman Someone is trying to turn language into an issue yet again. What are they doing and why?
10 July, 2019	Politics	Just the first step The language bill, passed by the Ukrainian parliament in the end of April, has had many important aspects left out. Many of those were important features that would allow this legislation to enable effective Ukrainisation of the public sphere in Ukraine
15 May, 2019	Breaking news	Poroshenko signs law on functioning of Ukrainian as state language The law is not applicable to the sphere of private communication and religious ceremonies
20 March, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian lawmakers on Wednesday consider about 160 more amendments to language bill The plenary session on Wednesday was over after consideration of amendment No. 821
7 December, 2018	Breaking news	Ivano-Frankivsk region joins campaign to ban movies, books, songs in Russian Previously, a moratorium on the public use of Russian-language cultural products was introduced in Lviv and Zhytomyr regions
16 November, 2018		The Ukrainian language as a protest In the summer of 2017, Kateryna Handziuk wrote an op-ed piece for The Ukrainian Week, which we are republishing here
5 October, 2018	Culture	One year, two languages, thousands of reasons The passage of the German-Ukrainian Year of Languages
18 September, 2018	Society	The problem with Irish Ignoring the language issue risks the likelihood that Ukrainian will disappear altogether in Ukraine
10 January, 2018	Society	The language of instruction as a key to unity and security Why Ukraine cannot yield to the pressure from its neighbors and how it can protect the state language
7 November, 2017	Society	New Education Law: A change of mindset Mostly discussed for its regulation of the language of instruction in schools, the new law offers more overlooked important innovations intended to change the quality and the content of education in Ukraine
23 June, 2017	Society	Linguistic puzzle Legislation and bills on the state language: current status and expectations
23 June, 2017	Society	Numbers about words Is Ukrainian society ready for changes in language policy
31 January, 2016		Back at the Beginning
21 May, 2014	Politics	The Myth of Russian-Speaking Regions If Russian becomes the second state language or even acquires official status in part of Ukraine’s territory, this will aggravate the discrimination of the Ukrainian-speaking majority and will ease the Kremlin’s expansion
20 May, 2014	Politics	A Dangerous Compromise If Ukraine’s top officials are unable to adequately assess the fatal outcome of their efforts in compromise seeking with Russia for Ukraine, they have no right to head the country. If they do realize the danger of the linguistic concession they are about to make, they should be treated as actors in the Russian cultural and language expansion in Ukraine who intentionally undermine its constitutional order and national statehood
17 October, 2013	Society	Defending Ukrainian at Odesa’s Universities College students in Odesa campaign against Ukrainophobia in local high schools
10 September, 2013		Priceless Words The people of Britain have an asset worth billions of dollars and effective soft power across the globe in their tongues
30 April, 2013	Society	Linguistic Discrimination in Modern Ukraine While Russia accuses Ukraine of "forced Ukrainization", Ukrainian-speakers face discrimination today, just like they did in times of colonial dependence
6 March, 2013		The Toothless Hag The notion that a foreigner would want to learn Ukrainian is beyond the comprehension of the majority of Kyiv residents. Why waste your time? Why stop to such a level? After all, don’t you see that she’s a toothless hag!?!
16 November, 2012	Culture	Linguistic Insights into Ukrainian History Professor Kostiantyn Tyshchenko speaks about the role of modern linguistics in our identity and the rebuttal of the cradle-of-three-brotherly-peoples theory
13 September, 2012		Language Myths in Eastern and Southern Ukraine In the minds of Ukraine’s leadership and entire political class sits a deep conviction that eastern and southern Ukraine does not understand or accept Ukrainian and that the language irks and outrages everyone there, meaning it is better to not even speak it in those regions.
31 August, 2012	Politics	The Only “Regional Language” Recent developments signal that the Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law is aimed at the renewed Russification of all Ukrainians regardless of their ethnic backgrounds
30 August, 2012	Culture	Dagmar Ostrzhanska: “People need something to identify themselves with. What should it be? Language of course!” Dagmar Ostrzhanska, director of the Czech Centre in Kyiv tells *The Ukrainian Week* of Czech-Ukrainian cultural relations, the Ukrainian art underground and the language inactivity of our compatriots.
28 August, 2012	Politics	Manual On Solving the Language Issue
23 August, 2012		Thou Shalt Not Kill! Over the past twenty years, everyone has begun to get used to thinking that they could all be identical citizens of this country. That peaceful co-existence of different languages was possible. We have waited a long time for the civilized times to come. Now, the difference once again has a chance to grow visible.
3 August, 2012	Politics	A Petty Traitor, After All After signing the language bill Mr. Lytvyn will now turn into a politician who is completely under the control of the government which will drop him at the first opportunity.
31 July, 2012	Culture	The Vibrant Ukrainicum Greifswald University — a centre for Ukrainian studies in Europe
23 July, 2012		Musings Over an AK-47 Contemporary Ukrainians reject the imperial civilisation that is identified by the Russian language
21 July, 2012	Politics	Lytvyn’s Choice The position of the Verkhovna Rada’s Speaker on the language law, regardless of his motivation, will determine his political future and his place in Ukrainian history
20 July, 2012	Politics	A Pinpoint Strike During the protests in front of Ukrainian House the government has once more used the scenario of the soft, yet consistent narrowing of citizens’ rights to protest. The criminal cases are a perfect tool for pinpoint strikes against the most proactive protest participants.
6 July, 2012	Politics	Parliament Gone Wild. Again The passing of the language law has triggered a parliamentary crisis that could explode into a political one.
19 June, 2012	Politics	Untied Opposition: Incompetence or Betrayal? The June 5th protests that accompanied the passing of a bill that aims to Russify Ukraine showed that while society is ready for radical resistance to the government’s anti-Ukrainian policies, opposition leaders are sitting on their hands.
19 June, 2012	Politics	Actions Speak Louder Than Words The mistakes made by the protectors of the Ukrainian language and how they can take the initiative into their own hands
15 June, 2012	Society	When Language Matters Slavist Yuri Shevchuk on conventional and new scenarios of assimilation, Russification and a pretense statehood
15 June, 2012	Society	Speaking up for Your Mother Tongue A number of Ukrainians successfully defend their language rights by using their knowledge of the law
5 June, 2012	Politics	Russification Redux? A confrontation over language legislation proposed by the ruling party is unfolding in Ukraine.
18 April, 2012		Why Ukrainian-Language Dubbing Rubs the Authorities the Wrong Way It can be argued that Ukrainian-dubbed foreign films and series have done much more to Ukrainise young people than didactic and patriotic admonitions to love the beautiful Ukrainian language.
18 April, 2012	Society	Being Yourself A firm choice of the language in which to speak allows people to shape their environment rather than be shaped by it
18 April, 2012	Society	Russification Via Bilingualism Under the current circumstances in Ukraine, most bilingual people ultimately become Russian-speakers
30 March, 2012	World	The Latvian Referendum as a Model for Ukraine The status of Russian becomes the most acute problem in countries where Russian-speaking communities are large both in absolute and relative terms.
2 February, 2012	Society	How to Bring Up a Ukrainian-Speaking Child in a Russian-speaking or bilingual environment
2 February, 2012	Society	The Dark Side of Bilingualism: the Number of Official Languages Grows, But Problems Do Not Decrease Several official languages are an inefficient tool in solving language and national issues
1 February, 2012	Society	Undeclared War: Government Conducts “Creeping DeUkrainization” The media have recently been overwhelmed with messages signaling constricted use of the Ukrainian language
12 January, 2012	History	Hryhoriy Kochur: Unwavering Translator His translations span 26 centuries, three continents and almost 30 literatures. The Soviets “awarded” him with 10 years in labor camps and the status of a dissident with no right to travel
12 January, 2012	History	Children’s Literature: Lost in Translation? More books for children are translated into Ukrainian than written in the language. Families seem to prefer “popular” classics and books made into Hollywood films
28 October, 2011	Culture	Ucrainica Italiana Italian scholar Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, a Slavic and Ukrainian studies specialist, speaks about the state of affairs with Ukrainian academia in Ukraine and abroad