Governor of Ukraine's second-largest city penalizes for using Russian
Date
11/26/2022 8:17:51 AM
(MENAFN) The mayor of Ukraine's second biggest city, Kharkov, has been fined for using a "non-state" language in an official TV speech, according to Kiev. Mayor Igor Terekhov is well-known for addressing his constituents in Russian.
Terekhov will be fined $3,400 hryvnas ($92) for breaking Ukrainian legislation, said Taras Kremin, the Ukrainian government's commissioner for state language protection, in a statement on Thursday.
The mayor had "used non-state language in his addresses to the residents of the city of Kharkov" amid a press telethon, the announcement wrote, naming this an "administrative offense." The language commissioner's office also gave the mayor's office an administrative warning, instructing it to use exclusively Ukrainian on the mayor's social media profiles.
Terekhov has until December 4 to file an appeal against the commissioner's decision, according to the statement. The Ukrainian authorities did not identify the language spoken by the mayor during the telethon, but Ukrainian media stated that he was renowned for routinely addressing his fellow inhabitants in Russian.
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