Position of Russian and Ukrainian languages before and after obtaining independence of Ukraine
The work is dedicated to the contemporary language situation in Ukraine, which turned out to be discriminatory against the Russian language. The article also touches upon certain aspects of the formation of the Ukrainian as a regional language originating, along with the Belorussian and modern Russian, from the Old Russian language. The status of the Great Russian and the Little Russian languages in the Russian empire is also looked upon, as well as language policy transformations in the Soviet Union and the role of both the Russian and the Ukrainian in the independent Ukraine.