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While worshiping the idol of money, we should watch out not to resurrect the devil 22 July 2011 European and American media disseminated information that historical artefacts house Alexander Autographs auctioned off the diaries wr... Vadym Kolesnichenko: Statements about the alleged intention to change the preventive measure for Tymoshenko is an attempt to make her political advertising Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is trying to fill summer information lull with political self-promotion, announcing sharp and hysterical stat... Rudolf Hess's remains removed from grave to prevent it becoming neo-Nazi pilgrimage site The remains of Rudolf Hess have been removed from their grave and will be cremated and scattered at sea in order to stop neo-Nazis visiting the last... Neo-Nazism: new insanity of Europe? Anders Breivik, who is accused of plotting and implementing twin deadly attacks in Oslo and Norway`s island of Utoeya, admitted to carrying out both... News Vadym Kolesnichenko: Statements about the alleged intention to change the preventive measure for Tymoshenko is an attempt to make her political advertising Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is trying to fill summer information lull with political self-promotion, announcing sharp and hysterical statements. This point of view was expressed by MP from the Party of Regions Vadym Kolesnichenko, commenting on statements of Tymoshenko former lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko that allegedly it is planned to change a preventive measure for her. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 15 Read more... More: Vadym Kolesnichenko: Viktor Yanukovych is demanded to interfere in trials of Tymoshenko and Lutsenko. Does it meet the standards of famous American democracy? Vadym Kolesnichenko: country needs constructive opposition Party of Regions statement on the results of VIII session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VI Convocation The monument to Massacre of Lviv professors Draft Law “On National Cultural Product” requires improvement Hot topics While worshiping the idol of money, we should watch out not to resurrect the devil 22 July 2011 European and American media disseminated information that historical artefacts house Alexander Autographs auctioned off the diaries written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele for $245,000. The 31 ring notebooks and bound diaries were written from 1960-75, long after Mengele had escaped following of World War II to Paraguay and Brazil. He drowned in 1979 in Brazil. Read more Add comment (3) Hits: 68 Read more... More: Neo-Nazism: new insanity of Europe? Legal Aspects of opening classes with Russian or other minority language instruction in kindergartens and schools of Ukraine The far-right march in Kyiv incites against national minorities Dear veterans and compatriots! Vadym Kolesnichenko answered questions on-line Russian Ministry of Justice of Ukraine fails to fulfill President’s Decree Pursuant to a Decree of the President dated December 1996 No. 1207/96 "On publishing legislative acts of Ukraine in the news-bulletin Official Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada", the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine was instructed to ensure that laws and other regulatory legal acts of Ukraine were also published in the Russian language. Therefore, any law signed by the President of Ukraine, as well as the laws that have been officially made public by the Chairman of Verkhovna Rada, are published in Russian along with Ukrainian. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 35 Read more... More: Vadym Kolesnichenko: Multilingualism constitutes the normal everyday experience for today’s world Russian Language Plays Exclusive Role to Develop Dialogue in CIS Intellectual raider from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc fraction June 6 suggested as Russian Language Day in Ukraine Sevastopol advocates appropriate position for the Russian language History Rudolf Hess's remains removed from grave to prevent it becoming neo-Nazi pilgrimage site The remains of Rudolf Hess have been removed from their grave and will be cremated and scattered at sea in order to stop neo-Nazis visiting the last resting place of Hitler's deputy. The skeleton of the leading Nazi was exhumed from a graveyard in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedel in the early hours of 20 July morning in a secret operation. Hess will be cremated and his ashes thrown into the sea at a date set by his surviving family in an act that will bring an end to the story of a man once one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime, and whom Hitler had nominated as his successor. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 16 Read more... More: Day of love and faithfulness The Act of 30 June 1941, and its 2011 Commemoration in Ukraine The act of destruction of the Ukrainian statehood - no end to the betrayal FISU releases new WWII documents Vadym Kolesnichenko: we will insist on proclamation of 2011 as the Remembrance Year of victims of the Great Patriotic War Orthodoxy His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr was conferred on the title "The Hero of Ukraine" July 8, President Viktor Yanukovych awarded Ukraine’s top medal to Patriarch Volodymyr of the Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Title was established by the Decree of the President of Ukraine № 944/98 dated August 23, 1998 to decorate citizens of Ukraine for a heroic deed or a laborious feat. According to this Decree the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has set privileges in salaries, social security and health care for the people awarded the Hero of Ukraine title. More about Patriarch Volodymyr Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 31 Read more... More: Russian Church presents liturgical language reform project On November 23 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church celebrates birthday of her Primate - His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr Enumerating the taxpayers by passport data is unacceptable for orthodox believers Human Rights Vadym Kolesnichenko: having banned the celebration of the liberation of Lvov, city court disregarded the law of Ukraine Lviv Regional Administrative Court council decided to prohibit the veterans and other community organizations to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the city from Nazi troops, which will be held on July 27 on the Hill of Fame and near the Monument of Glory in Lviv. The state authorities think commemoration activities would threaten public safety. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 10 Read more... More: Constitution of Ukraine - an important milestone in the history of linguistic rights Introducing the Day of National Minoritiy, Regional, and Minority Languages Only third part of Ukrainians assert their rights constantly Freedom House has recommended to dismiss Dmitro Tabachnyk, the Minister of Education and Science Vadym Kolesnichenko: State Tax Service should restore the right to compile tax documents in Russian Federalism We have to build the system of federalism in Ukraine. There is no other alternative “Whether the Republic of Ukraine is called federative or not, it should in fact be a federation of its actual republics-communities. Imposing of any unitarity and forced links would be a huge mistake that will only cause an antagonist reaction and trigger centrifugal forces that tug at the unity of the country.” Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Since Ukraine’s independence eighteen years ago, an efficient system of state administration has not been created. A clumsy model of the Soviet period, redrafted for modern needs, threatens the very existence of the Ukrainian state. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 1006 Read more... Official documents National communities in Ukraine called the Venice Commission to refrain from preconceived conclusions The 86th Plenary Session of the Commission (Venice) 25/03/2011 - 26/03/2011 is expected to adopt the opinions concerning Ukrainian draft law on languages. National minorities NGO adressed the Venice comission to refrain from preconceived conclusions and send their Assessment of the draft opinion (CDL(2011)010) on the Draft Law “On Languages in Ukraine” (CDL-REF(2011)001) drawn up on the basis of comments by Messrs Bartole, Velaers and Mr Galdia, expert of the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 185 Read more... More: Open Letter Non-government Report on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ukraine Resolution of Active Youth Forum The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: 3rd report on Ukraine The first report on the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Ukraine Social protection Vadym Kolesnichenko urges to strengthen measures in fight against extremism May 19, 2011 the People`s Deputy Vadym Kolesnichenko had introduced a draft law to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine” (concerning measures targeting extremism). As stated in a memorandum, the law intends to toughen the fight against street extremism acts by establishing liability for escaping identification by wearing masks, hoods or other means of concealing a person's face at meetings, pickets, demonstrations and other public and political events. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 75 Read more... More: 2010 Human Development Report: The Index of Human Development in Ukraine is Below the Average for Europe and Central Asia Public Report Concerning Observance of Regulations of Article 30 of the European Social Charter (Reconsidered) in Ukraine Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine - category of people whose cultural background is associated with Russian language regardless of ethnic and territorial distinctions According to official data from the 2001 Ukrainian census , the Russian language is native for over 14,273,000 Ukrainian citizens (29.3% of the total population). Ethnic Russians form 56% of the total Russian-speaking population, while the remaining Russian-speaking are people of other ethnic background: 5,545,000 Ukrainians, 172,000 Belarusians, 86,000 Jews, 81,000 Greeks, 62,000 Bulgarians, 46,000 Moldavians, 43,000 Tartars, 43,000 Armenians, 22,000 Poles, 21,000 Germans, 15,000 Crimean Tartars. According to a 2004 public opinion poll by the Kiev International Sociology Institute, the number of people using Russian language at their homes considerably exceeds the number of those who declared Russian as their native language in the census. According to the survey, Russian is used at home by 43–46% of the population of the country (in other words a similar proportion to Ukrainian) and Russian-speaking people make a majority of the population in Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine: Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 97% of the population, Dnipropetrovsk Region ­­– 72%, Donetsk Region – 93%, Zaporizhya Region – 81%, Luhansk Region – 89%, Mykolaiv Region – 66%, Odessa Region – 85%, Kharkiv Region – 74%, Russian language dominates in informal communication in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. It is also used by a sizeable linguistic minority (4-5% of the total population) in Central and Western Ukraine. According the Law on Languages adopted in Ukrainian SSR in 1989, Russian was specified as the language of communication in Ukraine. Ukraine signed the European Charter on Regional or Minority Languages in 1996, and ratified it as late as in 2002 when the Parliament adopted the law that implemented the chosen undertakings of the Charter. Since then, no specific law was adopted to define the territory and measures to protect the Russian language. Hot topics While worshiping the idol of money, we should watch out not to resurrect the devil Neo-Nazism: new insanity of Europe? Legal Aspects of opening classes with Russian or other minority language instruction in kindergartens and schools of Ukraine The far-right march in Kyiv incites against national minorities Dear veterans and compatriots! Most read Governing coalition submitted draft law on Languages to Verkhovna Rada The Council of Europe withdraws from the vocabulary word “father” and “mother”. Should Ukraine do the same? Vadim Kolesnichenko got Honour and Dignity award Public Report on the European Charter for regional or minority languages implementation in Ukraine Enumerating the taxpayers by passport data is unacceptable for orthodox believers Laws of Ukraine: Constitution of Ukraine Law on Languages Law on National Minorities Law On Ratification of European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Annotations: The Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine The Budget Code of Ukraine The Civil Code of Ukraine The Land Code of Ukraine The Family Code of Ukraine The Criminal Executive Code of Ukraine The Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine The Code of Administrative Proceedings of Ukraine Archive of news < July 2011 > Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31  Powered by Dapmoed rss eng | рус | укр Search Move Close Site map Draft Law on Languages in Ukraine Vadym Kolesnichenko biography Russian-speaking Ukraine Council Should Ukrainian authorities recognize Russian as co-official language in Ukraine? 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