Студенти Львівської політехніки вимагають звільнити Фаріон через мовний скандал

Professor and former lawmaker Iryna Farion, who gives online Ukrainian language classes, poses in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 5, 2022. - In Lviv, where the national language is predominant, a group of academics is offering free lessons online to those around the country wishing to brush up on their Ukrainian speaking skills. A sizeable minority of Ukrainians speak Russian as their mother tongue, and many more are fluent, but in recent years, increasingly more people have decided to shift linguistic identity in rejection of Russia's politics. Since Russia launched a military invasion on Ukraine in late February, under the pretext of "de-nazifying" its neighbour and protecting Russian speakers there, the trend has soared. (Photo by Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP) (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images)