Today, at 14.10, opposite the walls of the Volyn Regional State Administration, with slogans "The Russian language question – to a referendum!", "There are many of us – we speak different languages, but we are Ukraine!", "Our children will study in Russian schools!" representatives of the Russian-speaking public of Lutsk held a protest action against the infringement of the ethno-national rights of the latter regarding education in Russian in secondary educational institutions of our city. The initiators of the corresponding public protest action were activists of the Volyn regional organization of the "Union" party.

The vast majority of the participants in the picket action (the total number of the latter was about 40 people) consisted of teenagers and pupils of the local Russian-language school, as well as their teachers, who positioned themselves under banners with the symbols of the "Union" party.

Before the picketers, speeches with addresses were made by the head of the VRO of the "Union" party Yevhen Zubyk, as well as representatives of the Russian community of Lutsk, the All-Ukrainian Union of Soviet Officers, the Russian cultural center, and the Union of Workers of the region. The participants of the action spoke in favor of the creation of an interstate union of Slavic peoples, taking into account the language interests of all ethno-national minorities, the fair distribution of national income in the country, and, most importantly, for granting the Russian language in Ukraine the status of a second state language.

The picture acquired a brighter coloring when activists of the VOMO "Spilna Diia" and the VO "Svoboda" approached the protesters. The head of the Lutsk city organization of the VO "Svoboda" Ruslan Tymoshchuk called on the initiators of the protest action not to use children for the dirty manipulations of those politicians who continue to provoke the "Russian question".

The action, lasting half an hour, ended with the public announcement of the address of representatives of the "Union" party in defense of the Russian language for Lutsk residents, which was addressed to the President of Ukraine, the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Nazar Valchuk, "Political Ukraine", Volyn region.