of tv and radio broadcasts, friends, i will continue to talk about this with our next guest, oleksandr alfyorov is joining us - he is a historian researcher at the institute of the history of ukraine of the national academy of sciencesening, mr. oleksandr, ukraine has always been loyal to ukraine, to the russian language, to russian literature, to russian songs, we studied them too loyally in schools, we write poems we are in russian they talked in everyday life, they sang songs, but for some reason , in the light of these recent events, the valuev circular and the decree are mentioned, and these are just two facts, so everything that the russian federation did in relation to the ukrainian language, the russian empire, what then and how in general, if we take the whole history, how many years did russia try to destroy the ukrainian language, humiliated the ukrainian language, you know, of course, they called this the tip of the iceberg from the emsk decree bad mcd signed now the russian decrees that concerned us, we will simply remind our viewers referred to the prohibition of the ukrainian language in absolutely all spheres, it was possible to speak ukrainian exclusively at home, but this is not a school, this is n