Quotable notes

"My daughter, husband and mother, who are all Russian speakers, view it as an honor to speak Ukrainian. ... It's not possible to force people to speak Ukrainian. It's a result of having pride in your fatherland."

- Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, responding on June 14, to a question about the status of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine that was posed to her at the Institute of Political Science in Paris.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 3, 2005, No. 27, Vol. LXXIII

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