Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Loyalty toward the small large language
  • "Ridna mova"
  • Actual language usage
  • The citizens' views of language policy
  • Advocates of "bilingualism"
  • The European charter of regional or minority languages in Ukraine
  • The adoption of the language charter in Ukraine
  • The major mistake
  • The measures acording to the language charter as agreed upon by Ukraine
  • The establishment of regional languages
  • Viktor Yanukovych and the Ukrainian language
  • Coming to power
  • Victory day 2011
  • The president and the Ukrainian language
  • The Russian world and the "compatriots"
  • The Ukrainian population of the Russian Federation
  • Fighting the "Orange Revolution"
  • Russkiy mir and "historical truth"
  • Sviataya Rus'
  • Official Russia's impact on Ukraine and Ukrainians
  • The ultimate turn-Ukrainians as Russians
  • The hawk in Ukrainian language policy : Vadym Kolesnichenko
  • Kolesnichenko and "linguistic tolerance"
  • Kolesnichenko the "human rights activist"
  • Kolesnichenko on guard for Russkiy mir
  • Dmytro Tabachnyk and the Ukrainian language in the educational sphere
  • Ukraine's minister of education
  • Ukrainian-Russian history
  • Promoting the Russian language
  • Decreasing Ukrainian in the schools
  • Restructuring higher education
  • Decreasing Ukrainian in the preschools
  • Olena Bondarenko and the Ukrainian language in the electronic media
  • The draft law of 7 September 2010
  • On the way to the draft law of 7 September 2010
  • Regulations of the draft law of 7 September 2010
  • Criticism in Ukraine
  • The Venice commission's alleged "positive assessment"
  • The OSCE high commissioner's assessment
  • The Venice commission's assessment
  • Reactions to the failure
  • The OSCE high commissioner's letter
  • Reaction to the Venice commission
  • Anticipating the law : Serhiy Kivalov, the constitutional court, and the Ukrainian language in the courts of law
  • Vadym Kolesnichenko's nd Serhiy Kivalov's draft law : "on principles of the state language policy"
  • Promoting and protesting Kolesnichenko's and Kivalov's draft law
  • The Venice commission's opinion on Kolesnichenko's and Kivalov's draft law
  • Reactions to the "opinion"
  • Reaction to the OSCE high commissioner's unpublished assessment
  • Pushing through the draft law-the initial attempt
  • Pushing through the draft law-the adoption in its first reading
  • Pushing through the draft law-the adoption in its "second" reading
  • Reactions to the adoption in parliament
  • The parliamentary speaker's signature
  • The President's signature
  • Entering into force
  • Amendments of the President's working group
  • Summary and outlook
  • Bibliography.