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On July 16, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting on the topic of Ukraine’s new language law, which is intended to protect and advance the Ukrainian language in a country where Russian imperial and Soviet policies maintained the supremacy of the Russian language for more than a century. The law, one of the last acts of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko before he left office in May, was set to go into effect on that same day.The Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in the U.K. claimed in a tweet that, under the new law, doctors and teachers wouldn’t be allowed to speak Russian.That is false. To clear up misunderstandings about the law, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry clarified what it really entails, including when it comes to the provision of medical care: At the request of a person seeking medical assistance or medical care
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