Comparative characteristics of the rights of Ukrainians in Russia and Russians in Ukraine

19 March 2014 15:26

	Ukrainians in Russia	Russians in Ukraine
Quantity	1,93 million (1,4% of the population). According to unofficial sources about 10 millions.	8,33 millions (17,3% of the population).
Schools	10 schools teaching Ukrainian language and culture.	1256 schools teaching Russian language, where 694 331 students study.
Colleges	Ukrainian subjects are studied in 11 Russian colleges. Studies in Ukrainian are not available	214325 are taught in Russian. Russian language and literature are taught in 31 colleges.
Printed editions	7 Ukrainian language newspapers	1176 Russian language newspapers.
Radio stations	1 Ukrainian language programme	From 5 to 74% of the general amount of programmes in Ukraine (depending on a region) are broadcasted in Russian.
Public organisations	About 100 At the same time, there were 2 cases when Ukrainian organisations were banned and 2 cases when a registration of such organisations was denied.	103
OSCE assessment	According to the results of monitoring the state of the educational rights of ethnic Ukrainians in Russia and ethnic Russians in Ukraine, carried out by the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities on March-April 2009, it was noted that the Russian minority cultural and linguistic rights in Ukraine are satisfied in a much better way than it is usually provided to the national minorities in other OSCE participating States.