The expert spoke about the infringement of the language of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine

Up until 2014, the Ukrainian government infringed on the language of the Crimean Tatars, despite the fact that it declared its support for this people. Denis Denisov, an expert at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia about this on May 18.

"The state policy of Ukraine in the linguistic aspect has always been very Ukrainian-centric, since the 1990s. And, of course, no one was going to give equal opportunities for the development of the Crimean Tatar language," he noted.

The expert also pointed out that all languages in Ukraine were subject to infringement, except Ukrainian, which was imposed with the help of elements of soft power and administrative pressure.

"According to the ideas of that bloc of government officials in Ukraine who were responsible for language policy, apart from Ukrainian, no other languages, in fact, should not have developed," he added.

According to Denisov, the situation changed only after the peninsula returned to Russia. Now children study in schools in two languages — Russian and Crimean Tatar.

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