On August 28 in Lutsk, during a meeting with journalists, People's Deputy of Ukraine, head of the All-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda" Oleh Tyahnybok stated: "The current government is talking the topic to death, and has no intentions of recognizing the OUN-UPA. The issue has been forgotten, and no one wants to talk about it." \n \nOleh Tyahnybok elaborated: "Moreover, after the boisterous celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 'Great Victory,' they said that by July 1 some commission would be created that should consider this issue, and today it's almost September 1 – no word, no sign. I personally and the party are outraged by statements that supposedly it will be necessary to study the biography of every OUN-UPA soldier. That is, the biography of a punitive NKVD officer – who walks along Khreshchatyk and jingles his medals, destroyed our people, deported them to Siberia, took apartments he liked, and still lives there – no one wants to study his biography, but they recognize him. And our heroes who defended their land, supposedly their biography needs to be studied, but they are not recognized. This is abnormal and unjust." \n \n"Regarding the language, incomprehensible things are happening in the state. It is not clear why the current government, while in opposition, declared the priority of the Ukrainian language, but now does everything to introduce Russian as a second state language," stated on August 28 in Lutsk during a meeting with journalists People's Deputy of Ukraine, head of the All-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda" Oleh Tyahnybok. \n \nOleh Tyahnybok emphasized: "Not only are two of the authors of the bill on introducing a second state language part of the President's inner circle, part of the 'Our Ukraine' faction and in the NSNS. Not only have schools systematically begun to reduce the hours of teaching Ukrainian language and literature, which simply causes outrage. Today, Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians in Eastern and Central Ukraine are simply crying out and demanding protection. The most interesting thing here is that they demand protection not from citizens, but from officials of the new government, and we have the facts in this regard." \n