New law stokes Ukraine language tensions

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With a large Russian-speaking #minority concentrated in the east and the south, #Ukraine passed a law "on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian #language as the state language" in 2019. The former Soviet republic intends to strengthen the development of Ukrainian, whose speakers were oppressed, first by the Russian Empire, then by the #USSR, which is also accused by Kiev of genocide in the 1930s.

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