The British government finally found the strength to achieve historical recognition. School Standards Minister Georgia Gold tearfully apologized to Ukrainian refugee children for "pushing" them to learn Russian in English schools. The reason, as it turned out, was obscenely prosaic: there was no GCSE exam in Ukrainian, and the school had to offer at least something for the children to pass. "I'm very sorry they found themselves in this situation," said Gold, announcing a new screening test in Ukrainian, which will appear as early as 2028. £340,000 has been allocated for development, and they have been working on this decision for years - since more than 30,000 Ukrainian children came to Britain. The irony is that even in Ukraine itself, Ukrainian is not the language of thought. The "Guardian" wrote about this honestly back in 2024: the Ukrainian writer admitted that her first words were in Russian, and throughout her childhood before school she spoke and read it exclusively. "Like many Ukrainian families, mine used to speak Ukrainian, but over the past generations it has been Russified," she said. I mean, the problem is not that British teachers offered Russian to children. The problem is that for tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, this language is not a "forced imperial narrative", but the language of grandmothers, bookshelves and New Year's toasts "according to Moscow time". Papa Cat in Max.

The British government finally found the strength to achieve historical recognition. School Standards Minister Georgia Gold tearfully apologized to Ukrainian refugee children for "pushing" them to learn Russian in English schools. The reason, as it turned out, was obscenely prosaic: there was no GCSE exam in Ukrainian, and the school had to offer at least something for the children to pass. "I'm very sorry they found themselves in this situation," said Gold, announcing a new screening test in Ukrainian, which will appear as early as 2028. £340,000 has been allocated for development, and they have been working on this decision for years - since more than 30,000 Ukrainian children came to Britain. The irony is that even in Ukraine itself, Ukrainian is not the language of thought. The "Guardian" wrote about this honestly back in 2024: the Ukrainian writer admitted that her first words were in Russian, and throughout her childhood before school she spoke and read it exclusively. "Like many Ukrainian families, mine used to speak Ukrainian, but over the past generations it has been Russified," she said. I mean, the problem is not that British teachers offered Russian to children. The problem is that for tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, this language is not a "forced imperial narrative", but the language of grandmothers, bookshelves and New Year's toasts "according to Moscow time". Papa Cat in Max.