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* Securing Russian language to receive status of the state language
* Securing Russian language to receive status of the state language
* Promoting the concept of shared imperial Russian history as the ideological basis of continued domination of Russians in Ukraine;
* Promoting the concept of shared imperial Russian history as the ideological basis of continued domination of Russians in Ukraine;
* Working for a division of Ukraine into linguistically defined regions under the guise of federalism;
* Working for a division of Ukraine into linguistically defined regions under the guise of federalism and alleging russian speakers, a census catagory, is a social group;
* Providing support to local self-governance structure development that renders favorable conditions for local Russian and Russian-speaking groups;
* Providing support to local self-governance structure development that renders favorable conditions for local Russian and Russian-speaking groups;
* Monitoring the continued domination of Russian in the public communications sphere and all media; Fighting against attempts to reduce this influence in any manner or form;
* Monitoring the continued domination of Russian in the public communications sphere and all media; Fighting against attempts to reduce this influence in any manner or form;
* Countering propaganda and promotion of Ukrainian fascism and Nazism in Ukraine, as well as actions aimed at the rehabilitation, the exaltation, the social legitimization of individuals and organizations that participated in [[World War II]] on the side of [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and its allies; excluding the [[International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg|Nuremberg International Military Tribunal]] resolutions to be revised or/and discredited;
* Countering propaganda and promotion of Ukrainian fascism and Nazism in Ukraine, as well as actions aimed at the rehabilitation, the exaltation, the social legitimization of individuals and organizations that participated in [[World War II]] on the side of [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and its allies; excluding the [[International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg|Nuremberg International Military Tribunal]] resolutions to be revised or/and discredited;
*Ensuring the crimes of Stalinism and the Communist regime remain as little researched and discussed as possible and ignoring Russian fascism in Ukraine;
*Ensuring the crimes of Stalinism and the Communist regime remain as little researched and discussed as possible and ignoring neo-imperialist Russian fascism in Ukraine;
* Providing necessary support for pro-Russian education, involving citizen in publishing and distributing materials, documents, leaflets, posters, newsletters, organizing conferences, making TV/radio programs promulgating pro-Russian opinions and views.
* Providing necessary support for pro-Russian education, involving citizen in publishing and distributing materials, documents, leaflets, posters, newsletters, organizing conferences, making TV/radio programs promulgating pro-Russian opinions and views.
* Strengthening the dialogue between state and Russian /pro-Russian groups.
* Strengthening the representation of Russian /pro-Russian groups in government.


==Recent projects==
==Recent projects==

Revision as of 13:31, 29 May 2012

Russian-Speaking Ukraine
Founded1 March 2008
TypeHuman Rights Public Movement
FocusMaintaing Russian domination in Ukraine
Location
Area served
Ukraine
Key people
Vadym Kolesnichenko, Ruslan Bortnik
Websiter-u.org.ua

The All-Ukrainian Non-government Organization “Human Rights Public Movement “Russian-speaking Ukraine” (Russian: Всеукраинская общественная организация «Правозащитное общественное движение «Русскоязычная Украина») was founded on 1 March 2008 in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region during the II All-Ukrainian congress of deputies of all-level councils, and registered on 10 August 2009 by the Ministry of Justice (Kiev).Its financial backers are unknown.

Statutory mission

Advocating the continued domination in Ukraine of the minority Russian-speaking citizens through the extention of Russian language and culture; and extention of the authority of the Russian Orthodox Churchin Ukraine, over the Ukrainian Orthodox and Uniate Catholic and Baptist churches .

Supervisory Board

Vadim Kolesnichenkov, The Chairman of Council [1]

Members:

  • Ruslan Bortnik
  • Vladimir Kornilov
  • Vyacheslav Potapov
  • Valeriy Golenko
  • Sergey Provatorov
  • Arkady Monastyrsky
  • Vladimir Pashkov
  • Sergey Tsekov
  • Oleg Tsarev
  • Vladimir Alekseev
  • Kanafia Khusnutdinov
  • Aleksandr Prokopenko
  • Valentin Chernov
  • Mikhail Kirillov[2]

Major activities

  • Ensuring the continued domination of the Russian language and culture in Ukraine on the grounds that this must remain inviolable and inalienable;
  • Securing Russian language to receive status of the state language
  • Promoting the concept of shared imperial Russian history as the ideological basis of continued domination of Russians in Ukraine;
  • Working for a division of Ukraine into linguistically defined regions under the guise of federalism and alleging russian speakers, a census catagory, is a social group;
  • Providing support to local self-governance structure development that renders favorable conditions for local Russian and Russian-speaking groups;
  • Monitoring the continued domination of Russian in the public communications sphere and all media; Fighting against attempts to reduce this influence in any manner or form;
  • Countering propaganda and promotion of Ukrainian fascism and Nazism in Ukraine, as well as actions aimed at the rehabilitation, the exaltation, the social legitimization of individuals and organizations that participated in World War II on the side of Germany and its allies; excluding the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal resolutions to be revised or/and discredited;
  • Ensuring the crimes of Stalinism and the Communist regime remain as little researched and discussed as possible and ignoring neo-imperialist Russian fascism in Ukraine;
  • Providing necessary support for pro-Russian education, involving citizen in publishing and distributing materials, documents, leaflets, posters, newsletters, organizing conferences, making TV/radio programs promulgating pro-Russian opinions and views.
  • Strengthening the representation of Russian /pro-Russian groups in government.

Recent projects

2010

Documentary Photography Project

On April 8 "Russian-speaking Ukraine" and the Polish Society for the Remembrance of the Victims of Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists launched an exhibition entitled "The Volyn Massacre: Polish and Jewish victims of the OUN-UPA" in Ukrainian House in [[Kiev]. In April–October period of 2010 exhibition was displayed in Kiev, Luhansk, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Nikolaev, Sevastopol, Yalta, Kharkiv.[3] The organization has no known plans for any similar memorials to Stalinist-communist crimes committed against Polish and Ukrainian victims.

World Without Nazism

On June 20–22 Founding Convention of "World without Nazism" took place in Kiev. This is part of a larger Russian sponsored initiative directed from the Kremlin by the FSB (Federal Security Service) as part of a broader strategy to retain Russian control over former Soviet Republics The founder and head of this organization is a FSB associate Boris Shpiegal. More than 350 delegates came to this event, among them representatives of government and non-governmental organizations from more than 20 primarily ex-soviet-bloc countries, and emigres from Israel. A new international organization called World without Nazism was the result of couple of forums on the lessons of World War II. They have been held in Berlin (December, 2009) and Riga (March, 2010). [4]

Major Publications in English

2007

Public Report on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages implementation in Ukraine [5] This analysis was prepared for information-gathering process designed to enable the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to better evaluate the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Ukraine and to adopt its own report. It attempts to explain that Ukrainian is not a threatened language in Ukraine.

2008

Additional information to the Public Report on the European Charter for regional or minority languages implementation in Ukraine [6]

Public Report Concerning Observance of Regulations of Article 30 of the European Social Charter (Reconsidered) in Ukraine [7]

See also

Footnotes and references

  1. ^ Vadym Kolesnichenko Biography
  2. ^ Council Board
  3. ^ Documentary photo exhibition Volyn Massacre: Polish and Jewish victims of the OUN-UPA [1]
  4. ^ rnational Human Rights Movement "World without nazism" http://www.wcrj.org/en/projects/detail.php?ID=834
  5. ^ Public Report on the European Charter for regional or minority languages implementation in Ukraine [2]
  6. ^ Additional information to the Public Report on the European Charter for regional or minority languages implementation in Ukraine [3]
  7. ^ Public Report Concerning Observance of Regulations of Article 30 of the European Social Charter (Reconsidered) in Ukraine [4]
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