OREANDA-NEWS. The Verkhovna Rada deputy from the pro-presidential party “Servant of the People” Oleksiy Ustenko considers that the law on the foundations of the state language policy repealed in 2014 caused the reunification of Crimea and Russia.

“In 2014, a law on language was passed, after which all these actions were provoked in Crimea, after which the Russian Federation entered Crimea. This was one of the things from which it all began,” the politician said.

On December 10, a bill on the abolition of the law on state language in Ukraine was introduced in the parliament. Deputy Maksim Buzhansky said that the current law discriminates against speakers of other languages, primarily Russian.

Earlier, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe called on Kiev to revise its language policy in order to “avoid the language issue becoming a source of inter-ethnic tensions within Ukraine.”