The National Commission for State Language Standards of Ukraine has decided that capitalizing the words “Russia” and “Moscow” in unofficial documents will no longer be considered an error. This was reported by Policy referring to the department.
They stated that they made such a decision after the objections of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk and official letters from the Institute of Ukrainian Language and the Institute of Linguistics bearing their name. OO Potebnya from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
As Politico writes, capitalizing the phrases “Kingdom of Moscow”, “Russian Empire” and “State Duma of the Russian Federation” will also not be considered a deviation from linguistic norms.
Previously Russia’s permanent mission to the UN in Geneva in the name The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and its head, Volker Turk, will publicly assess the situation of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population.
The delegation noted that Ukrainian authorities systematically discriminate against “everyone and everything that is Russian.”
Previously Alexander Kuznetsov, Russia’s permanent representative to UNESCO, said that the Ukrainian delegation began to ostentatiously write the word “Russia” in lowercase letters in its documents.