Valuyevskiy Circular forbade Ukrainian publishing in the Russian Empire. The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Verhovna Rada of Ukraine on the irrelevance of the Ukrainian as the instruction language at the higher educational establishments. 1978- The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR approved the resolution on extending the instruction of the Russian language and literature. 1983 -Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR on intensive learning of Russian. And it seems to me that language issue is something artificially made up.
Ukrainian people are loyal by nature.
Therefore, all the Russian culture restrictions are of great concern to me. Journalists always ask me questions in Russian when I am ready to answer in the state language. The state has got to deal with it somehow. I speak Russian at home and Ukrainian at work. Let them learn mine.