The Kyiv City Council has imposed a moratorium on the public use of russian-language media products in the capital.
This was reported on the Council's website.
The decision was adopted at a plenary session, with 71 deputies voting in favour. Vadym Vasylchuk, the Chair of the Permanent Commission on Education and Science, Youth and Sports, stresses that this is how the council plans to protect the Ukrainian information space from the hybrid influences of the aggressor state.
The MP adds that this decision effectively prohibits the public presentation and demonstration of russian-language goods and services that are created in the course of activities in the field of culture. This applies to books, music, theatre performances, concerts, etc.
"russian is the language of the aggressor country, and it has no place in the heart of our capital. It is necessary to once and for all limit the russian-language cultural product on the territory of the capital of Ukraine," commented Vasylchuk.
A representative of the Kyiv City Council points out that the moratorium also applies to objects of material and spiritual culture that have artistic, historical, ethnographic and scientific significance and are subject to preservation, reproduction and protection in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.
Background. Earlier, Mind reported that 19 million russian books from Soviet times were removed from Ukrainian libraries. This created the need to fill this gap with Ukrainian and Ukrainian-language books.