Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko instructed the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice to work on the issue of banning Russian-language versions of websites in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko instructed the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice to work on the issue of banning Russian-language versions of websites in Ukraine.
This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine, citing Svyrydenko’s response to a petition on this issue.
«The law requires the mandatory presence of a version of the website in Ukrainian, and the existence of other language versions is the right, not the obligation, of the entities specified in it. The law does not establish the necessity of the existence of versions of websites in Russian,» Svyridenko said in his response.
She added that the formation of a full-fledged Ukrainian-language information environment on the Internet requires further systematic work, taking into account the peculiarities of the functioning of digital platforms and search services.
Therefore, despite the gradual refusal of individual website owners to publish Russian-language versions, the relevance of the issue raised in the petition is growing.
«In particular, in connection with the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies into the work of search engine algorithms, which to some extent leads to the formation of a trend towards offering Russian-language versions of websites in Ukraine and, as a result, the Russification of the Ukrainian Internet space,» the Prime Minister said.
Recall that on December 10, a petition to ban Russian-language versions of websites collected the necessary 25,000 signatures for consideration by the government.
