MP proposes criminal liability for "abuse of the Ukrainian language”
21 June, 2021
Politics

The bill of Elizaveta Bogutskaya provides for imprisonment for up to three years.

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On the website of the Verkhovna Rada, the bill of the deputy from the party "Servant of the People" Elizaveta Bogutskaya on amendments to the Criminal Code for violating the language legislation was published. According to the text of the initiative, public abuse of the Ukrainian language will be punished with a fine of up to 68,000 hryvnia, arrest for up to six months or imprisonment for up to three years. What exactly will be considered "abuse of language" is not reported.

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