«UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN BILINGUALISM»  AND «RUSSIAN-SPEAKING CITIZENS» IN UKRAINE:  OBJECTIVE REALITY OR LANGUAGE COLONIZATION?

Volodymyr DEMCHENKO; Olena KOVNIR; Ivan LOPUSHYNSKYI

doi:10.62664/cpa.2025.01.06

Authors

Volodymyr DEMCHENKO Kherson National Technical University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-7798
Olena KOVNIR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0574-2903
Ivan LOPUSHYNSKYI Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-7476

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62664/cpa.2025.01.06

Keywords:

Ukrainian state, constitutional status of the state (Ukrainian) language, law on language, Constitutional Court of Ukraine, state language policy, language structure of society, linguistic existence of society, Ukrainian language as the state language, comprehensive development and functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language, Russian language, «Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism», «surzhik», dialects of the Ukrainian language, Russian-Ukrainian war, linguistic colonization.

Abstract

The article, based on the latest scientific research, analysis of speeches by state representatives, politicians, and leading Ukrainian linguists, examines the issues of «Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism» and «Russian-speaking citizens» in Ukraine; It has been found that this «terminology» lacks legal certainty, since no Ukrainian legal document contains such definitions, and accordingly, the rights of someone who de jure does not exist cannot be violated; It has been proven that such problems in the language sphere as «Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism» and «Russian-speaking citizens» require constant attention from the Ukrainian state, since otherwise, as the Russian-Ukrainian war, which has lasted for more than ten years, has shown, they may develop into specific threats to the preservation of territorial integrity and sovereignty; It is shown that the avoidance of resolving language issues for 30 years (until February 24, 2022) of formal Ukrainian independence (with the copying of Russian-language forms) ultimately led to a military conflict, the resolution of which requires the involvement of both the linguistic aspect and the identity aspect; As a conclusion, it is shown that the problem of «Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism» and «Russian-speaking citizens» in modern Ukraine is confidently receding into the background, which was facilitated primarily by the recent self-identification of Ukrainian citizens, primarily as Ukrainians; It has been proven that the Ukrainian state needs to consolidate the successes achieved in the formation and implementation of state language policy in the near future, to make appropriate amendments to the current regulatory legal acts of Ukraine regarding the language and ensure the unconditional implementation of the State Targeted National and Cultural Program for Ensuring the Comprehensive Development and Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language in All Spheres of Public Life for the Period Until 2030.

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