“Silence the atrocious situation in Ukraine.” The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed its discontent with Mijatovich

The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Dunja Mijatovic, does not want to see violations in Ukraine. This was announced on the night of October 12 at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Mijatovic openly silenced the dire human rights situation in Ukraine, where the authorities are waging a targeted campaign to infringe on the rights and interests of the country’s large Russian-speaking population. Despite our repeated appeals to the commissioner, which contained concrete examples and evidence of the discriminatory nature of Kiev’s language policy and the violent Ukrainianization of all spheres of society, the proper reaction was not followed, “- he said in the comment.

Russian diplomats also expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that in October 2019 Miyatovich “caught up with Kiev’s policy of eliminating the Russian language from education, public life and the media in Ukraine with measures to develop the Russian language and minority languages ​​in Russia “.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called this approach “contrary to the principle of impartiality” and called for the protection of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.

According to a survey conducted in August by the Razumkov Center in cooperation with the Ilko Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives, 52.2% of Ukrainian citizens believe that the rights of Russian-speaking citizens are not violated.

July 16, 2019 in Ukraine the law came into force on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language. The law states that Ukrainian is the only state language in Ukraine. This status implies the mandatory use of the Ukrainian language throughout the country in state and local government bodies, as well as in the public spheres of public life. The law does not apply to the field of private communication and religious rites.