CERTAIN HISTORICAL, MORAL-ETHICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE POLICY FORMATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article provides a historical excursion to language policy formation in Ukraine and Law on Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as State is Analyzed on its relevance, compliance with methodological, moral and ethical and political guidelines, coordination with the Constitution and other legal acts, and prospects for its implementation. Suggestions made to improve it.

In particular, attention is drawn to the fact that natural rights of people in their relations with the state may be restricted. At the same time, if the state is legal, then it is bound by its stated rights to guarantee everyone, and therefore its attempt to oblige everyone to use only the state language would be wrong.

Attention is drawn to the fact that the legal regulation of issues related to language requires special attention and should be based on a high culture of law-making process and fundamental legal knowledge. All these shortcomings give the false impression that the requirements of this Law apply to each and all spheres of public life, while its content indicates that it extends only to a certain circle of persons, to the bodies, institutions and organizations designated by it, and public spheres defined by him. The authors of the Law also admit shortcomings that have political significance, which is manifested in the unclear interpretation of the territorial structure of Ukraine, the place of the ARC in its composition, the place and significance of the Crimean Tatar language among the languages of other indigenous peoples and national minorities of Ukraine, which can be used and already used for the purpose of political manipulation.

Suggestions made to select options that would allow the above disadvantages to be avoided.