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‼️ FINE FOR BUDANOV — FOR SPEAKING RUSSIAN. AND FOR THE OFFICIALS FROM THE NABU TAPES — STILL NOTHING?
Language ombudswoman Olena Ivanovska reported that Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Budanov admitted violating the language law during the events in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and will pay the fine prescribed by law.
Excellent! The law must work.
But why is such principledness shown selectively?
I remind you that back in 1 September 2026 I officially appealed to the language ombudswoman regarding Russian-language conversations of high-ranking officials made public by NABU as part of the operations “Midas,” “Forrest Gump,” and “Themis.”
This concerned, in particular, Iryna Mudra, Herman Halushchenko, Oleksiy Chernyshov, Ihor Myroniuk, Dmytro Basov and other persons whose conversations may have taken place while performing state functions.
In response, the Secretariat signed by Yuriy Zubko reported the absence of relevant complaints and of separate records for specific individuals, citing also restrictions on access to information.
So instead of concrete answers about inspections, protocols and fines we received bureaucratic explanations.
And now regarding Budanov the violation has been established and the fine announced.
Ms. Ivanovska, what changed?
Why in one case does state oversight show results, while regarding the high-ranking officials from the NABU tapes society still has not received a clear answer?
Where are the results of the investigations? Where are the protocols? Where are the rulings?
And why is there still no information about checks of other participants in the events at Borshchahivka who also spoke Russian?
Now recall the words of the chair of the parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Speech, Yaroslava Yurchyshyn, who in effect counted Russian-speaking Ukrainians among Russians or “traitors.”
So by his logic, what are the Russian-speaking high-ranking officials from the released recordings?
Is it loud accusations for ordinary Ukrainians, but completely different rules for government representatives?
Ms. Ivanovska, the law on the state language must apply equally to everyone who is obliged to comply with it.
And if Budanov is held accountable for his violation, society has the right to know whether similar possible violations by other officials were investigated.
Because selective application of the law is already a question not only of language, but of equality of citizens before the state!
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