Ukrainian Language Ombudswoman Ivanovska called #Russian a "language of power and arrogance" and complained that Lviv children "easily assimilate" the Russian language. "The Russian language equals arrogance, such arrogance. Neurolinguists should...
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... study the very structure, the specifics of this language. Because, have you noticed, for example, such a pattern that we really easily assimilate Russian. (Russian-speaking children - Rare.) Move to Lviv, and already Lviv children start speaking Russian, not the other way around," stated Ivanovska. This happens because Russian is a "language of power". "Usually, when these Russian-speaking people appear in our children's environment, they position themselves with arrogance and the languag...
...e of power. And when there is a language of power, everyone else submits. The Russian language has a vertical structure. The Ukrainian language has a horizontal structure," added the ombudswoman.