initiated by the central radically, but in a milder form, state universities were opened in kiev and kamenetz-podolskythe ukrainian academy of sciences, the department of the ukrainian language at kiev, kharkov and odessa universities later, while in exile. if we have a free development of russian and ukrainian culture, we can flourish, but if we now abandon the first culture, we will be only a bedding for other nations and we will never be able to create anything great, narrow ukrainianism is exclusively a product brought it makes no sense for us to transplant a whole culture from the golitsa. there is no evidence of success, and this is just a crime. pavel skoropadsky. in 1918, supporters of total ukrainization for the first time raised the issue of legislative consolidation of the supremacy of the ukrainian sovereign state. the use of the russian language, they proposed to artificially limit this, was sharply opposed by the minister of education of the hetman's government, nikolai vasilenko, putting forward the idea of cultural parallelism between russian and ukrainian culture. vasilenko said rus