In the near future, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko intends to Ukrainize the Internet. This procedure will take place within the framework of the concept of state language policy developed by the Presidential Secretariat in cooperation with the Ukrainian office of Microsoft, the newspaper Kievsky reports.
According to the chairman of the Council on Culture and Spirituality under President Nikolai Zhulinsky, negotiations were underway with the Microsoft representative office of Microsoft back in the period of President Kuchma to begin computer Ukrainization of the country, but they did not achieve the desired result. Today in Ukraine there is a branch of the corporation, which is tasked with accelerating the Ukrainian Internet.
According to Zhulinsky, the Russian and English languages ​​dominate on the Web now, but soon Ukrainian "should take the appropriate place." The Chairman of the Board of the Internet Association of Ukraine Tatyana Popova agrees with him. “It is technically possible to carry out our plans. But they will start using Ukrainian resources en masse only after the state obliges all state institutions to use this version, ”the Kiev-Kiev Newspaper quotes it.
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The publication also cites the estimates of Sergey Gorbachevsky, the chief editor of pre-paid.com.ua, according to which the Ukrainization of one site will cost about 2 thousand hryvnias (about $ 400). According to him, the Ukrainian domains are treated with distrust, "if they are in Ukrainian, the audience will be completely lost." Some experts limited themselves to comments, such as “the president is divorced from reality.”
Some realities, however, look very harmoniously in combination with Yushchenko’s intention to take control of the Internet in Ukraine. The other day, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine opened dozens of criminal cases related to “violation of public morality”. In addition to this, according to proUA.com, the agency has prepared 250 prescriptions and representations to the authorities inactive while "minors visit computer clubs and gambling halls that use unlicensed products and games with elements of cruelty and violence."
The press service of the prosecutor’s office also noted that lately, “daring crimes degrading the honor and dignity of perennials using propaganda on mobile phones for subsequent demonstration or distribution via the Internet” have become popular among teenagers.
Recall, by the way, that recently in Kiev, adolescents have been banned from visiting computer clubs during school and night time - to “prevent” Internet addiction.
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