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Article: Kiev or Kyiv: language an issue in Ukraine: How you pronounce the capital is becoming a flash point as some oppose heavy Russian influences.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 28, 2000
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Angry crowds rampaged through the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early this month, trashing a Russian cafe and allegedly threatening Russian-speaking citizens on the streets. The riot was a reaction to the murder of a well-known local Ukrainian folk singer.
Before the dust settled, Lviv's city council was threatening to pass an ordinance banning Russian-language songs from local cafes and radio stations, and the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow was issuing dire warnings about the "rising tide of anti-Russian discrimination" in neighboring Ukraine.
In other parts of the former Soviet Union, such as the Baltic states and Moldova, Soviet-era settlers from ...