Make Ukrainian a weapon against Moscow called Kiev Ukrainian writer and cinematographer Andrei Kurkov. In his opinion, it is not difficult to do this:.

it is only necessary to declare the Russian language a cultural phenomenon in Ukraine and then protect it from the encroachments of the Russian authorities. "Russia is trying to use Russian-language in its own interests. To limit the ability of Russia to protect the Russian language in Ukraine, it is necessary to recognize Ukrainian Russian-speaking as a Ukrainian "cultural property" and to take Ukrainian Russian under its philological control, "Kurkov said to the" Business Capital ". For this he proposes to open under the roof of the Academy of Sciences the Institute of the Russian Language, whose staff will record the differences between the modern Russian language and Russian in Ukraine. After that, Moscow will not be able to hold any actions in defense of the Russian language, he said.. Moreover, according to Kurkov, this will relieve the tension in society. If Russian is recognized as a specific cultural sphere, then it will not be associated with a hostile nation and with politics. Then millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians will have no claims to the Kiev authorities and there will be no reason to appeal to the eastern neighbor. And Europe will stop pointing to Kiev on the oppression of national minorities.

Then, Kurkov believes, neither constitutional bilingualism nor the isolation of ethnic Russians will be required: everything will naturally settle down. Now Kiev repeats the way of Warsaw, giving endless occasion for reproaches in the humanitarian-democratic sphere. But only Poland is already a member of the EU, and Ukraine only aspires to this, and the struggle with monuments, books, language in it clearly does not help.