In the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, students and teachers were forbidden to communicate with each other in Russian.
Teaching in Russian has not been conducted there for a long time, and now it has been banned even just within the walls.
Gennady Zubko, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Academy, was the first to report this on the social network.
His message was permeated with pride and delight.
In the comments, the Ukrainians thanked him for helping to crush this reptile - the "language of the invaders", but several daredevil students nevertheless wrote that this decision was contrary to the Constitution of the country.
A few hours later I had to explain myself to the president of the academy, Sergei Kvit.
He assured everyone that no one would definitely monitor students and teachers and punish them if they speak Russian.
“But the internal public opinion will be such that it will help Mohyla to be a fully Ukrainian-language university.”
Of course, this statement is full of slyness.
You can ban something and not punish for violating the ban, but in the head of a person who violates the ban, the thought will constantly beat: “You can be punished for this at any moment.”
Tired of living in constant fear, many will stop violating the ban, and those who continue will be tormented by guilt for not being like everyone else.
Living with a constant sense of fear and guilt is already a pretty serious punishment for any person.
Yes, he will eventually switch from his native language to Ukrainian, but not of his own free will, but under strong pressure, which is the real violence against the will and personality of a person.
In Ukraine, for a long time, the argument was in use: “Ukrainian is the state language.
Therefore, state institutions are required to use Ukrainian.
And no one forbids Russian.
Let anyone who wants to speak it at home or among themselves.
But after the prohibition of the Russian “among themselves” in the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, this argument completely ceases to work.
In Ukraine, Russian speakers are oppressed, and how.
Therefore, we at the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation sent an appeal to the UN, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Secretary General of Amnesty International.
In it, we proposed to pay attention to the totalitarian regulation of the ways of everyday communication between people.
The appeal of the head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeev says: “By such actions, the leadership of one of the leading universities in Kyiv directly invades privacy and infringes on the rights of people, which is contrary to the Ukrainian Constitution and international human rights standards.”
This is not the first time the HRC has approached international organizations.
We send them there regularly, and I regularly report requests to my subscribers.
Those, in turn, constantly ask: “Why are you doing this?
They already know about everything.
They will still support Ukraine.”
And I always answer: “At least in the future they will not be able to say that they did not see anything and did not know anything.
We sent them."
But lately we have begun to notice that these appeals are bearing fruit, albeit small ones.
For example, recently Human Rights Watch stated: “Ukrainian troops appear to have widely scattered landmines around Izyum, resulting in civilian casualties.”
Human Rights Watch is one of our recipients.
We constantly send collections of materials about the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions there.
Including mines "Petal".
With which Ukraine throws people, including because they speak Russian - even among themselves.
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