President Zelensky must speak Ukrainian, but only while conducting his ‘constitutional’ duties, Kiev’s Supreme Court rules

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Ukraine’s top court has ruled that Volodymyr Zelensky must only use the country’s state language when exercising his official duties as president, after a citizen claimed he broke the law by speaking Russian at a public event.

The legal case was set in motion after a citizen filed a complaint against Zelensky for delivering a speech in Russian at an IT-themed forum in Kiev in May 2019. The person asked the Supreme Court to rule that Zelensky had broken the law by not using Ukrainian – the country’s sole official language, according to the constitution – while exercising his presidential duties.

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