One has to be blind not to see that there are a lot of problems that need prior attention of the authorities.

What will Ukraine receive as a result of gas negotiations and how is it possible to survive with the Law on State Budget of Ukraine for 2012?

How to find a compromise on the issue of payments to the victims of Chernobyl catastrophe and children of war? How to get out of the situation with Tymoshenko’s case?

Why Ukraine’s investment ratings are decreasing?

Why do the majority of Ukrainians believe that their lives got worse?

This is not an exhaustive list of problematic issues, not to mention the preparation and holding of Euro 2012, which requires sufficient efforts from the executive power and local self-governments!

Still, some short-sighted governmental officials suggest that there is only one issue in our country which requires urgent attention. And this is language discrimination.

 These officials (who entrenched themselves both in the Cabinet of Ministers and in the parliament), stubbornly try to bring up to discussion the issue which has already been agreed upon both within the society and our political circles.

It seems that the Ukrainian language is annoying some people so much that they can’t help creating new draft laws against it.

 One of them is the draft Law on Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Pre-School Education" (with respect to the language of education) on Tuesday was voted for inclusion to the agenda.

To the credit of the parliament, only 217 of its members voted to include the aforementioned draft law into the agenda.

 And although it is now clear that this law draft will not pass any kind of voting in the parliament, still a few words should be said about it.

The explanatory note to the bill states:

"The adoption of the Law of Ukraine" On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Pre-School Education" ensure implementation at the state level of the right of every child, including those with special needs, for accessibility and free pre-school education, and full physical, intellectual, moral, aesthetic, and social development in accordance with the abilities and preferences of the child. "

Wonderful words! But they have nothing to do with the proposed draft law. Because its unique legal innovation is the exclusion of the Ukrainian language from the sphere of child pre-school education.

Therefore, I would like to turn to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov who signed this law draft before sending it to to the parliament, as well as some ministers and deputy ministers who also endorsed this document.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

If you think that in Ukraine there is a surplus of kindergartens, I must disappoint you that this is not the case. Rather the opposite. I have repeatedly encountered with complaints of parents (and read about it in the media), who could not place their children into kindergartens for a simple reason – there were no free places available.

Have you ever tried to ask teachers what they are more concerned about: low wages or the language of education?

May be we should take care of more important problems first? 

Moreover, today many Russian-speaking parents who don’t have enough time or knowledge  to teach their children the state language consciously send them to kindergartens and schools with the Ukrainian language of teaching. These parents, who are now 30-40 years old, want their children to know the Ukrainian language, because they believe in the future of our country and realize that the state language is a consolidating factor that unites us all - representatives of more than 120 nationalities.

This very generation represents itself the best way as a member of the European community who shares European values. But one can share certain values only implementing them and not implementing some surrogates.

The attempts to introduce a second state language undermine the foundation of the existence of the Ukrainian state, annihilate our sovereignty and self-sufficiency, our uniqueness, expressed in our language diversity.

And can we now deny the younger generation the right to know the language of the state they were born in?

Do we have the right to decide for their future? If later they choose another language of communication, it will be their choice. But some political aliens try to deprive our children of this very choice right now creating the aforementioned draft laws.

But they will not succeed, because our wise people know that good intentions pave the road to hell.

It has been a long time since Ukrainians understood that their future lies in the independent state only. And in spite of any words said or manipulations done, our nation has been moving along this road. And when the road is chosen, the directions don’t matter, because the road is naturally leading to the goal.