On April 25, the Verkhovna Rada passed a new law on languages whose primary aim is to protect the primacy of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine. The vote tally was 278 for, 38 against, seven abstaining and 25 not voting; it came after a review of over 2,000 amendments in a painstaking process begun back in June 2017. The law recognizes that language is a primary component of national identity and, as our correspondent reported from Kyiv, it “elevates the status of the Ukrainian in nearly every facet of life.”
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