Permanent Representative of Crimea sees Russian as the second state language in Ukraine

Georgy Muradov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Crimea to the President of the Russian Federation. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, Mar 14 Permanent Representative of the Republic of Crimea under the President of the Russian Federation, Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean government Georgy Muradov believes that the Russian language in Ukraine must be recognized as the second official language. «Russian must be the second language state in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, this applies to the entire post-Soviet space, especially those countries where large Russian-speaking communities live,» Muradov told RIA Novosti. />A project on political asylum was submitted to the State Duma because of the persecution for the Russian languageAccording to him, the Ukrainian authorities should take an example from Crimea, where there are many times fewer Ukrainian-speaking citizens than Russian-speaking ones in Ukraine, but the Ukrainian language is recognized as the state language, along with Russian and Crimean Tatar «This is a guarantee of national peace and harmony and a requirement of international conventions on the linguistic rights of national minorities,» Murado emphasized. c.In Spain, a Ukrainian woman attacked a girl for speaking Russian