Ukrainian Political Parties Speak Each Other’s Language
Western Ukraine’s ultranationalist Freedom party—the force that got Russian taken off the books as an official language—has poll ratings of only 20%, and the intelligentsia in Lviv has declared it will speak Russian for a day in solidarity with Russian speakers in the east. Some people in Donetsk—Mr Yanukovych’s home city—have said they will reciprocate by speaking Ukrainian.