Mykolaiv became a leader among Ukrainian cities in eliminating violations of the language law

View of Cathedral Square in Mykolaiv. NikVesti's photo

In 2023, Mykolaiv became one of the first cities to comprehensively address violations of language legislation.

This is stated in the annual report of Taras Kremin, the commissioner for the protection of the state language.

«The Mykolaiv City Council is perhaps the first among Ukrainian cities and regional centers to take a comprehensive approach to eliminating violations of language legislation and replacing signs, advertisements, and product information in a non-state language with similar ones in the state language,» the report says.

In the document, it was noted that during the year, the entrepreneurs of Mykolaiv actively conducted explanatory work on compliance with the law and the need to post information in the Ukrainian language.

«Inspections were constantly carried out, based on the results of which protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up. A significant part of them was eliminated by business entities in a short period of time,» the report added.

The work of the Law on Language in the Mykolaiv Oblast

In October 2023, a «language raid» took place in Mykolaiv. Then, in the Ingul district of the city, 77 trade and service facilities were inspected for compliance with language legislation during the week. As a result of the inspection, violations were found in 14 objects.

A week later, experts checked another 250 objects. Violations were recorded in more than 40 cases.

The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Taras Kremin, said that during 2023, he received 53 complaints about violations of the language law in the Mykolaiv Region.

We will also remind you how at the end of last year the deputies of the Pervomaisk City Council decided to propose to the Verkhovna Rada at once two options for the name of the city: Olviopol and Pervomaisk. During the session, lawyers explained that according to the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada , the name «Pervomaisk» is subject to replacement.

Then Taras Kremin declared that the city cannot remain with the current name.

At the end of February, the ombudsman criticized the pace of renaming in the Mykolaiv region. He stated that it was the south that once suffered the most from Russification, but the region is being stripped of its Russian names very slowly.