Ukraine’s top court allows school teachers to speak Russian | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Ukraine’s Constitutional Court on Thursday overturned a government resolution prohibiting school teachers from speaking Russian at work.
On September 30, 2009, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko issued a directive whereby teachers could only speak Ukrainian at school, even during breaks.
The Constitutional Court ruled that the Cabinet of Ministers had overreached its powers, since in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution, the use of languages in the country is only subject to the law, not government ordinances.”