Ukraine Seeks Linguistic Revival

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The collapse of the Soviet Union left a complex mixture of ethnic groups in republics of the former empire. Their common language, Russian, expanded at the expense of native languages, which former Soviet republics are seeking to revive. Ukraine is demanding that students pass college entrance exams in Ukrainian, and the language is taught in all of the country's elementary and high schools. But as VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports, the effort involves practical obstacles, even outright hostility from some who are content to speak Russian.

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  • i want to go to Ukraine to teach English~

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  • If the older grown ups dont like Ukrainian then they can go to Russia. The older grown ups are products of the Homo Sovieticus commie environment that considered Ukrainian either a village language or an act of treason.

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