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Some Ukrainians Risk Radiation to Avoid Russian Invasion

Edit Breitbart 26 Apr 2016
“At least nobody is shooting here, and I can freely speak the Ukrainian language,” Doctor Oleksandr Sklyarov tells the Kiev Post. Thirty years later, the radioactive outskirts of Chernobyl are seeing a small increase in population as Ukrainians flee Russian invasion and seek cheap rents and natural beauty....

''NATO stands with Ukraine'' - Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Kyiv Security Forum, Kyiv, Ukraine (NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
And despite Russia's past complaints about discrimination based on language, Ukrainian-language schools have been closed ... But that progress relies on the Ukrainian government - and authorities at all levels and in all sectors - not only embracing the idea of reform, but actually delivering the fruits of reform ... The Ukrainian volunteer movement was essential to the defence of Ukraine during its darkest days....

The Victory of Ukraine

Edit The New York Review of Books 22 Mar 2016
The Russian Empire had banned Ukrainian books, newspapers, theaters, and even the use of the Ukrainian language in schools ... At that time, after seventy years of slow Russification, only 40 percent of Ukrainians used their native language in everyday life. But as soon as they could they formed the Society of the Ukrainian Language, Ukraine’s first post-Soviet civic organization....

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS GENERAL DEBATE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE VIENNA DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION (UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Mar 2016
... occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, including forced and retroactive implementation of Russian laws, the imposition of Russian citizenship, politically motivated incarceration and prosecution, restrictions on freedom of expression, intimidation of journalists and disruption of the news media in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages....

Two Years After Annexation, Crimeans Wait On Russia's Unfulfilled Promises

Edit Radio Free Europe 18 Mar 2016
... languages -- Russian, Ukrainian, and Crimean Tatar ... Even before annexation, there was only one Ukrainian language upper school in the Crimean capital, Simferopol ... In ordinary schools, Ukrainian language lessons have been reduced to a bare minimum ... This could in the future lead to the limitation of Ukrainian culture and language on the peninsula....

Two years after the illegal annexation of Crimea (Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Mar 2016
Reports of torture and ill-treatment of ethnic Ukrainians and members of the Tatar community abound. The Ukrainian language is under severe pressure and media freedom is curtailed. Practically all Ukrainian TV-channels have been switched off and replaced by Russian state-controlled broadcasting ... The space for using the Crimean Tatar language is shrinking....

In Ukraine a War Rages on, and America Should Care

Edit Huffington Post 15 Mar 2016
The Ukrainian language was banned, the Church was suppressed, and the people were forced to do the bidding of their stronger neighbor to the north ... Fascinated with the history and stories, I've spent the last twenty years studying the culture, the language, and the background of the Ukrainian people ... When he told me of his experience fighting against the Ukrainian nationalists in the West, his face darkened, and his fists tightened....

Maryna Poroshenko: Taras Shevchenko is a decent example of love to the Homeland for all of us (President of Ukraine)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
The President's wife visited the Taras Shevchenko International Lyceum under the Ukrainian Cultural Association in Istanbul. It is the only Ukrainian education institution in Turkey ... Maryna Poroshenko expressed gratitude to the teaching staff of the lyceum for their love to Ukrainian language, respect to Ukrainian history, cultural and educational support for Ukraine and upbringing true Ukrainian patriots....

The two Presidents: Ukraine and Turkey to unite efforts for de-occupation of Crimea (President of Ukraine)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
'Russian occupants conduct massive human rights violations, force people to get Russian citizenship, implements deliberate policy to change the composition of population, presses out ethnic Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and other ethnic minorities, destroys Ukrainian languages and persecutes Ukrainian speakers. The Ukrainian church also faces oppression,' Petro Poroshenko said....

Besnik Hasi: It’s honour for me to play against Lucescu (JSC FC Shakhtar Donetsk)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
(Source. JSC FC Shakhtar Donetsk). Pre-match press conference of Anderlecht head coach ... - Players feel fine ... He has proven effective in the Ukrainian championship, on the European stage; he has been in Ukraine for 13 years and has been achieving excellent results. I repeat ... - You understood the question from my colleague in the Ukrainian language without translation. Do you know Ukrainian?. - I learned Russian, so I understand Ukrainian too....

When Schools Become Battlegrounds (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
(Source. HRW - Human Rights Watch). Last summer, Nina Nikolayevna lost the school in eastern Ukraine where she was the principal. It was shelled by heavy artillery fire during the armed conflict. Thirteen-year-old Martha was forced to flee her village in South Sudan because of armed conflict ... Nikolayevna's school was the last in her town where children were being taught in the Ukrainian language ... Hassan is back in school ... Original Document....

Maryna Poroshenko discussed social projects on the assistance to people affected by the war in ...

Edit Public Technologies 14 Feb 2016
In order to promote the development of the Ukrainian language and culture among pupils, Maryna Poroshenko presented modern Ukrainian literature to the school ... The parties discussed cooperation in the framework of the social projects aimed to assist Ukrainian children and people affected by the war in the east of Ukraine ... In the Ukrainian Free ......

Ukrainian Students Pilot “Arrival at Auschwitz” IWitness Activity (USC Shoah Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Feb 2016
(Source. USC Shoah Foundation) ... The Ukrainian-language activity was led by Anna Lenchovska, USC Shoah Foundation's regional consultant in Ukraine, who works with educators in the country to use testimony in classrooms ... These experiences allowed students to better connect with the activity ... Original Document. http.//sfi.usc.edu/news/2016/02/10904-ukrainian-students-pilot-%E2%80%9Carrival-auschwitz%E2%80%9D-iwitness-activity. (noodl....
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