The Ukrainian constitutional court ruled unconstitutional the “law on the Russian language”, 2012
The constitutional court (CC) of Ukraine recognized unconstitutional the law “On principles of state language policy”, the so-called law of Kivalov-Kolesnichenko, which was adopted in June 2012. It is reported TASS with reference to the press service of the court.
This law went into mass called “the law of the Russian language”. He suggested that Russian and other minority languages (which at the time of adoption, there were 17, including Gagauz, Yiddish and krymchak) “used measures aimed at their use is subject to a ten percent representation of native language on the territory where it is distributed”. After the events of 2014, the Verkhovna Rada considered the law repealed.