The status of Ukrainian as the sole state language of Ukraine has
been challenged by various post-Soviet political forces since it
was established in 1989 and enshrined in the Constitution in 1996.
Since President Viktor Yanukovych came to power in February 2010,
the President and the Party of Regions have put forward several
initiatives to promote the Russian language at the expense of
Ukrainian as well as the minority languages of Ukraine.
Paradoxically, their most important instrument has been the
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. However, the
Russian language in Ukraine does not meet the criteria of a
regional or minority language according to the Charter nor do those
politicians who struggle for the "rights of the native Russian
language" in the name of Russkiy mir represent the democratic
values upon which the Charter is built, as perfectly reflected by
the history of the unconstitutional language law of 2012.
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