Analysis of the draft law «On principles of state language policy» (#9073), its correlation with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML)
On June 5th, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading a draft law on principles of state language policy (#9073). As stated in the explanatory note, once the draft law is adopted, Russian language becomes a regional language in 13 administrative territorial units of Ukraine (out of 27).