Russia will always worry about the factor of language. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the Apostrophe portal by American political scientist Paul Goble.

"Russia will always worry about the factor of language. Russian language is not one language, but many. Ukrainian is quite similar to Russian and therefore has the potential to share these various Russian languages. Vladimir Putin, like most Russians, can not believe that the Russian people are not one and that the Russian language is not a single thing. Russian, spoken in Moscow, is not the Russian spoken in Novosibirsk. And therefore, Ukrainian, being a related language, has the potential to separate them, "he said..

According to the political scientist, the biggest fear of Vladimir Putin is the emergence of another country where the main language will be Russian.

"He can not be reconciled with the idea that somewhere there can be a country where they speak Russian, but this is not part of Russia. He does not understand that in the modern world there are many countries that speak the same languages ??as other countries, but this does not make them the same. Putin lives with a very old-fashioned vision of the world, and it always shows its error, "the expert added..