Also this is the best twist I've seen from Russian propaganda in a long time.
So basically, Russia is calling Ukraine an "aggressor country" after it annexed Crimea and started war in Ukraine 😂
In Polish we have a joke:
- What the absolute record of impudence?
- Shit on someone's doormat, ring the bell and ask for toilet paper
@kravietz @dump_stack Eh, to be fair, I think that's just the UNIAN journalists trying to be cheeky in English and sort of failing. As in "oh no, we are severing ancient cultural ties *with the actual aggressor*, whatever shall we do!"
But yeah, not their best turn of phrase!
Ah wait, so it's Ukrainian Rada that enacted this resolution - my fault, and my argument is completely invalid here!
@kravietz @dump_stack Trends being what they are, though, I think a revision that clarifies the schools' logic--as in, provide school training in languages that prepare students for university in Ukraine and abroad--might be in the works, but we'll have to wait and see about that. I like the commission's report, though: "we criticized you guys for providing preferences to the Russian language in the first two drafts, but you miight have overcorrected here, please clarify". :P
@kravietz @dump_stack Yup, this is part of the admittedly slow disentanglement. The Russian reaction is more "oh no, my dinner, where are you going? How could you leave me? We have a shared past and so much value in the cultural exchanges!"
On that note, I've looked up the Venice commission report, and they seem to be in partial agreement with our Russian friend here: https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL-AD(2019)032-e