Zakharova compared the Ukrainian language ombudsman with the “Sprechenfuehrer”

Brief retelling from RIA II

Maria Zakharova compared the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language in Ukraine, Elena Ivanovskaya, with a “Sprechenfuehrer.”

An official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the ombudsman’s office is engaged in persecuting Russian speakers.

SYKTYVKAR, September 9 – RIA Novosti. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova compared Elena Ivanovskaya, the commissioner for the protection of the state language in Ukraine, with the “Sprechenfuhrer” (from the German Sprechfuhrer - “fuhrer of speech” - ed.), whose apparatus, according to her, does not hide the persecution of Russian speakers.

“Representatives of the repressive language mechanism actively operating in Ukraine are the apparatus of the commissioner for the protection of the state language, headed by the language ombudsman, but in fact he is called the “Sprechenführer,” Elena Ivanovskaya. Not only do they not hide the fact that they are engaged in real persecution of Russian speakers - everyone: Ukrainians, Russians, and Jews. They also proudly report on some of their successes in this field,” Zakharova said at an on-site briefing in Syktyvkar.

According to her, “language punishers” publish their reports in the public domain, and pay special attention to the educational sphere: by the beginning of the school year, Ivanovskaya issued instructions to teachers on the use of the state language with practical recommendations for conducting conversations with parents of Russian-speaking students.

Zakharova recounted this step-by-step instruction: first, agree that the right to the free development of languages ​​is guaranteed by the constitution, then deduce that the Ukrainian language has no alternative from the totality of legal norms, and finally convey that discrimination on the basis of language is “not a restriction, but equality, security and equal access” to a successful future.