Party of Regions faction leader Viktor Yanukovych slams the humanitarian policy of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government for being aimed at the split of Ukraine.
Ukrainian News learned this from a report by the opposition government headed by Yanukovych on the performance of Tymoshenko's Cabinet of Ministers in the first 100 days.
"On the whole, there are grounds to state that the humanitarian policy of Tymoshenko's government is aimed at the split in the community, against vital interests of peoples of Ukraine, and is an instrument for the establishment of the anti-constitutional ideological dictate," the statement reads.
Yanukovych believes that the humanitarian policy of Tymoshenko is an instrument of attack on the traditional, in his opinion, multilingualism and polycultural environment in Ukraine.
Yanukovych said an order by the Education ad Science Ministry on compulsory tests in Ukrainian as entrance exams to universities was deliberately passed to bar from university hundreds of thousands of school leavers, whose native language is Russian or other languages.
"This is direct violation of human rights on language principle and violation of a constitutional norm concerning a right to free use and protection of languages of all ethnic groups," Yanukovych said.
Yanukovych also criticized provisions of the governmental program on science and education for their being declarative.
"That 'Breakthrough' [the program of Tymoshenko's government, 'Ukrainian Breakthrough'] doesn't give any word on how to boost spending on the system of education, on the ways to modernize the education base, on the ways to provide schools with textbooks, on specific measures to be performed by the state to provide social guarantees to teachers," the report reads.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Cabinet of Ministers is intending to report on its first 100 days on March 27 and March 28.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Yulia Tymoshenko was formed and endorsed by the Verkhovna Rada on December 18.
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