A neurosurgeon teaching at Ivano-Frankovsk National Medical University in western Ukraine resigned after one of the students reported him for delivering lectures in Russian, the university has said on its website.
The incident comes as Kiev has embarked on a full-scale “Ukrainization” campaign after the government adopted new legislation allowing for more comprehensive Russian language bans throughout the country.
Earlier this month, Taras Kremen, who serves as the country’s commissioner for the protection of the state language, reportedly authorized an inspection on the use of the Ukrainian language at the medical university. According to him, a fifth-year student, Denis Dudko, complained about a teacher at the department of neurology and neurosurgery “who conducted classes in a non-state language.”
The lecturer, Vyacheslav Botev, had moved to Ivano-Frankovsk from Donetsk. Large numbers of Russian-speaking Ukrainians have fled to the west of the country amid the ongoing…
