limit this was sharply opposed by the minister of public education of the hetman's government mykola vasilenko, putting forward the idea of cultural parallelism between russian and ukrainian culture vasilenko said russian culture is deeply rooted in the minds of the ukrainian people. russian is the native language of the predominant part intelligentsia in ukraine moreover, a significant percentage of the population of ukraine speaks only this language. therefore, from the point of view of the state, to humiliate the position of the russian language or give it some secondary significance would not only be inappropriate, but downright harmful. i am opposed to the publication of a law on only one sovereign language. such a law, except for the confusion of harm and great difficulties in life , will bring nothing. both languages, russian and ukrainian, should enjoy complete equality. in big cities there has always been widespread. high, russian culture. there has never been ukrainian culture, ukrainian culture in the form in which we know it. and now this culture, rustic, rural, embroidered shirt