By adopting the law of July 5, 2017, the Supreme Rada of Ukraine not only violated, but consciously defied the right of the Romanian minority, Silvia Grossu, lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the State University of Moldova, said in the program “People’s Council” on 10TV channel, IPN reports.

“The teaching in the mother tongue is the basic, essential element for the legitimacy of the identity of any nation. The absence of the language as the language of teaching leads to the dismemberment of the given group,” said the lecturer.

Ion Leashchenko, chairman of the National Unity Bloc, said a protest against a fully undemocratic law, which was adopted by the Supreme Rada of Ukraine on July 5, was mounted last Saturday. “It was a spontaneous, ad-hoc protest, a kind of flashmobbing. We felt obliged to react as we all know how it is to have Romanians who do not have a school,” he stated. According to Ion Leashchenko, the law was submitted to European bodies for thorough analysis and this is a message that the President of Ukraine could refuse to promulgate this law.

Protests against the law that bans education in the mother tongue on the territory of Ukraine were mounted in Chisinau and Bucharest The participants in the protest demonstrated in front of the embassies of Ukraine in the two states. Under the law, the teaching in the Romanian language in education institutions is to be fully stopped until 2022.