From what I’m reading, these changes were already present in the console ports released last year, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 also doesn’t have a Russian dub.
From what I’m reading, these changes were already present in the console ports released last year, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 also doesn’t have a Russian dub.
What does being ethnically Russian have to do with the language? Ukraine is perfectly fine with people who were born in Soviet or post-Soviet Russia, which includes some of its most prominent and beloved public figures, like Tina Karol. Also, being able to speak Russian is not the same as not being able to speak Ukrainian, so your data would have to account for that.
In what context? Are we still talking school teachers (which is implied from the original point of the OP) or do you mean elsewhere, in casual conversations between people? The latter is not outlawed in Ukraine and is widely practiced to this day, especially in regions like Odesa. Many would look down on people for that since the full-scale invasion, but that’s not the law.
Edit: Per a 2024 poll cited by the BBC, only 6.4% of the Ukrainian population name Russian as their mother tongue. Only 0.5% don’t understand Ukrainian at all.
Except if you speak Russian then…well not so much now right? But this is also nonsense if again Canada banned French in schools and government institutions it doesn’t matter if someone like Céline Dion is beloved when normal people are negatively impacted by their protections being taken away. Do you think that some 50-60 year old ethnically russian person that maybe learned ukrainian as a school kid but since they never used it again or not often enough doesn’t really speak ukranian anymore and now has to go to their municipal offices to renew some permits or their passport or whatever and they are shit out of luck because Poroshenko did away with all of that because he was and presumably still is a far right nationalist.
Again while the latter is not outlawed when you pass laws that clearly do away with protections and you not so subtly say ‘You know it’s ok to be cruel to those people’ then people will be cruel, like look at the USA currently under Trump where a lot of people are a lot more comfortable being cruel towards minorities.
But hey let me just quote a part the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages:
Protections of minority groups is again like one of those things most nations and people agree on this isn’t radical stuff because if those existing protections are being taken away then it’s often a one way trip to ethnic repression which unless drastic measures are taken to put them back in will inevitably lead to mass killings or worse.