Originally Posted by
Vir9
In May Ukrainian language was banned from the sole Ukrainian gymnasium in Crimea and Ukrainian books were burned. In Novorossia you can get in trouble when you talk just in Ukrainian. Many schools in Donbass just banned Ukrainian also. Most people there would anyway prefer Russian but i dont think that it is fair to bann Ukrainian from schools.
There are 2 million (unofficially the figure is higher) of ethnic Ukrainians living in Russia. But there are no school in Russia with Ukrainian language curricula. There are around 17% of ethnic Russians in Ukraine and there are around 17% of schools with Russian language curricula in Ukraine. Even in Lviv, where anti-russian sentiment is strongest there are still some Russian schools. In places like Crimea basically anything was in Russian already before Crimea joined Russia.
Yes thanks to Putin there are no inter-oligarchic wars anymore in Russia and gangs dont terrorize Russian cities so much like in the 90s but anything else you mentioned is also true for Russia and especially for Novorossia. Kadyrov´s men were raping women in Novorossia and are guilty of many war crimes (executing POWs,.. )there (if i am not wrong DNR throw them out some months ago). But Russia has also a huge problem with Nazi gangs, who kill immigrants and non-european looking people. This happens also in Ukraine but is much less common and for the most time Ukrainian Nazis were just Bandera loving pussies more comical than dangerous. Novorossia is a chaotic place now, some regions are quite quiet and safe but many other areas are just plundered by criminal gangs. Non-Orthodox Christians are persecuted and defamed as American or Ukrainian spies and people, who not support the new "government" get really in trouble and often just "disappear"
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