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The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Olena Ivanovska, fined People’s Deputy Oleksandr Feldman and the head of the public association “Peace. Development. Stability”, Roman Zahorodnyi, for violations of language legislation. Each must pay 5,1 tish. UAH.
As reported by the Language Ombudsman’s Secretariat, in August the public movement “CHESTA” submitted two complaints regarding the dissemination in Ukraine of paid Russian-language advertising related to Members of Parliament.
In one case, there were targeted advertising posts in Russian that Feldman spread from his page on the Meta platform. In the other case, Russian-language advertising that the public association “Peace. Development. Stability” spread on Meta platforms in favor of MP Yuri Boyko, who is one of the participants in the organization.
As a result of state control measures, in both cases a violation of the Law of Ukraine “On guarantees of the functioning of Ukrainian as the state language” was established.
Regarding Feldman and Zahorodnyi protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up. Following the case reviews, Ivanovska issued orders to impose fines of 5100 hryvnias on each.
Legislation provides for the use of Ukrainian as the state language in defined areas of public life. At the same time, private communication in other languages by itself is not a violation of language law.
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