Drivers on Ukrainian marshrutki (a cross between a taxi and a minibus) have been banned from playing Russian pop music while they work…
“Lviv is the most Ukrainian city in the country and if we don’t preserve our Ukrainian language we will lose our identity so we must force people somehow to speak our native language,” he [Vasyl Shelook, from Lviv City Council] said.
June 19th, 2004 at 4:33 am
Crazy? No crazier than Quebec, which is to say, crazy.
July 11th, 2004 at 7:58 am
Ukraina could switch to the Latin alphabet. That would show ‘em. I wonder if eastern Ukraine should join Russia, perhaps make the Don river the border? The entire Donbass could be given to Russia for that matter.