Preserving the national identity of Ukrainians in Russia: Cabinet approves plan
Kyiv • UNN
The government approved the NSDC's plan to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in Russia and on the lands historically inhabited by them. The plan envisages collecting evidence of crimes, countering propaganda, and covering Ukrainian history in educational programs.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the action plan of the National Security and Defense Council to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in Russia, including on the lands historically inhabited by them. This was reported by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, UNN reports.
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“The Cabinet of Ministers approved the National Security and Defense Council's plan to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in Russia,” Goncharenko said.
According to him, the main points of this plan include the following
- collecting and studying facts and evidence of crimes committed against Ukrainians who lived or are living in the territory of the Russian Federation historically inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians, the policy of forced Russification, political repression and deportation of Ukrainians;
- intensifying work against Russian propaganda about the history of Ukrainians and peoples enslaved by Russia;
- development of interaction between ukrainians and the enslaved peoples of russia;
- Preparing and disseminating materials about the thousand-year history of the state and the historical ties of the lands where ethnic Ukrainians live;
- coverage in educational programs and textbooks of the history of ethnic Ukrainians in the lands historically inhabited by them within the Russian Federation.
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In January, he signed a decree “On the territories of the Russian Federation historically inhabited by Ukrainians.” Among other things, the decree instructs the Cabinet of Ministers to develop and submit to the National Security and Defense Council an action plan to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in Russia, including in the lands historically inhabited by them (in the Kuban, Starodubsk, Northern and Eastern Slobozhanshchyna within the present-day Krasnodar Territory, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, and Rostov regions of Russia).
In particular, the government should have provided for it:
- studying the issue of collecting and studying facts and evidence of crimes committed against Ukrainians living (who lived) in the territories of Russia historically inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians, the policy of forced Russification, political repression and deportation of Ukrainians, restoration and preservation of historical memory, including the establishment of a center for these issues;
- intensify work to counteract disinformation and propaganda of the Russian Federation regarding the history and present of Ukrainians in Russia and all the peoples enslaved by it, involving domestic and foreign scholars, experts, representatives of the Ukrainian community abroad and organizations of Ukrainians abroad in the preparation and conduct of events aimed at debunking Russian myths about Ukraine;
- development of interaction between Ukrainians and peoples enslaved by Russia;
- Ensuring, in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the preparation and dissemination in Ukraine and the world of materials on the more than thousand-year history of Ukrainian statehood, the historical connections of lands inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians with Ukrainian national state entities in different historical periods;
- coverage in curricula and textbooks for educational institutions of the true history of ethnic Ukrainians in the lands historically inhabited by them within the Russian Federation.
