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Live From Ukraine: Oleksandra Povoroznik Talks Language Politics and Wartime Culture

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The Impact of Russian-Speaking Ukrainians on the Protection and Promotion of the Ukrainian Language

Russian-speaking Ukrainians have told me that they are forbidden to speak Russian when they were teaching at universities. So, you know, our government did a law which aims to protect Ukrainian. Essentially, according to this law, you can use whatever language you like in your daily life. The problem with that is certain professors aren't too happy about that because a lot of them don't really know English that well.

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