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In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> According to a 2017 survey, 63% of the population spoke Russian, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170822212837/http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref>
In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> According to a 2017 survey, 63% of the population spoke Russian, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170822212837/http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref>
Under Ukraine's fascist [[discriminatory]] laws, if a native Russian-speaking clerk-cashier in a convenience store attempts to sell you so much as a candy bar, the transaction must be conducted in the Ukrainian language. If both the cashier and customer are native Russian-speakers, both must put on fake Ukrainian accents under the [[racist]] regime's [[politically correct]] laws or suffer often cruel sanctions, up to and including public humiliation and violent beatings.
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