In general, there is no problem of communication and understanding. Approximately the same number of people say the same about Ukrainian.” “Those who say they understand Russian poorly and have difficulty communicating in it are just over 4% percent. "The overwhelming majority of the population speaks both languages, Russian and Ukrainian,” Mishchenko explains. For reasons of history, culture and the similarities of the two languages, Ukraine is effectively a bilingual nation. Sociologist Mikhail Mishchenko explains that studies have found that the vast majority of Ukrainians don’t consider language a political issue. In none of the cities that are now being bombed by the Russian army to supposedly liberate them has the Russian language been suppressed or have the Russian-speaking population been discriminated against. Yes, the official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, and a 2019 law aimed to ensure that it is used in public discourse, but no one has ever sought to abolish the Russian language in everyday life. 1, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is a mother-tongue Russian speaker who’d made a successful acting and comedy career in Russian-language broadcasting, having extensively toured Russian cities for years. So let’s be clear, Putin is bombing the very people he has claimed to want to rescue. There are no language or ethnic-based statistics of the victims, but it’s likely the majority were Russian speakers. The official civilian death toll of Mariupol is estimated at more than 3,000.
Putin is bombing the very people he has claimed to want to rescue.Īccording to the latest data from the local authorities, 80% of the port city has been destroyed by Russian bombs, artillery fire and missile attacks, with particularly egregious targeting of civilians, including a maternity hospital, a theater where more than 1,000 people had taken shelter and a school where some 400 others were hiding. I had fond memories of the welcoming from locals who were quicker to smile than in some other parts of Ukraine. Many natives of the contested regions of Luhansk and Donetsk had moved there, taking jobs in restaurants and hospitals. There were also many offices of international NGOs and human rights organizations, a consequence of the fact that Mariupol was the last major city before entering the occupied zone of Donbas. There was a vibrant youth culture and art scene, with students developing projects to turn their city into a regional cultural center with an international photography festival. It is a rugged but beautiful city dotted with Soviet-era architecture, featuring wide avenues and hillside parks, and an extensive industrial zone stretching along the shoreline. *Newsbites are digest items, not direct translationsīetween 20, I spent several months in Mariupol.
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Read the full story in French by Laurence Albert Paris is still far behind London and its 65,000 CCTV cameras. Cameras will now help to deter crime and help the police solve cases. So far, the rather obsolete Parisian system of CCTV was mainly devoted to monitoring traffic. To allay fears about the protection of privacy, tapes will be destroyed after 30 days and an ethics committee will be created. In addition, 2,500 trained police officers and firefighters will be allowed to view images captured by about 9,500 cameras located in the Parisian metro system and train stations. The 20 district police stations will be equipped with surveillance computers connected to the cameras via 480 kilometers of optical fiber. Location is a sensitive issue: if the first wave of cameras appears to focus on upscale arrondissements, officials promise that eventually "the distribution among districts will be satisfactory." The locations for these new cameras have already been chosen, after consultation with the elected leaders of Paris' "arrondissements' (administrative districts).
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By June 2012, there are slated to be 1,455 across the city's sprawling neighborhoods, plus additional ones deployed on the banks of the Seine river.
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In a major new effort to crack down on street crime, some 200 new CCTV (closed-circuit) surveillance cameras were switched on in the French capital. PARIS - Call it the Parisian police force's version of cinéma vérité.
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