Compare it yourself.
Ukraine: "Under the bill, all schools and universities will be required to teach in Ukrainian. All schools and universities are required to teach in Ukrainian, although special exemptions apply to certain ethnic minority languages, to English and to other official languages of the European Union.
Contrary to the minority languages which are EU official languages, Russian, Belarusian and Yiddish are granted no exemption for the purposes of the law." [0]
Finland: "All teaching from children’s pedagogy to university studies is available in Swedish in Finland." [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine#Ana...
Not according to the law. It simply had 3 years of grace period, starting from 2019. [1]
"members of national minorities who do not speak an official EU language — Byelorussians, Gagauzes, Jews, and, significantly, Russians — will only be able to study at the secondary school level their language as a subject." [0]
"But Ukrainian is the state language."
And Finland has two state languages. [2]
"Are you saying that minimal standards in Ukraine should be education in russian"
No, it's what you are saying when you state that Ukraine has "the same level of laws that you get in Western countries, including Finland".
[0] https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL-AD(20...
[1] https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/parliament-passes-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland#Ethnic...
> Classes taught in ethnic minority languages will be allowed at Ukrainian-language schools, and some subjects at Ukrainian-language universities can be taught in English or one of the official languages of the European Union.
And yes, maybe the Ukrainian language that has been repressed by russia since 19th century at the latest needs a bit of an affirmative action.
That's dishonest.
"maybe the Ukrainian language that ... needs a bit of an affirmative action"
Maybe, but then discrimination of minority languages doesn't allow you to claim that the Ukrainian policy is on the same level as in Western countries.
And you do know why there are few Yiddish speakers in the Europe now, right? Yiddish might have been an official language somewhere in the EU if not for mass extermination of Jews. In which Ukrainian heroes took part [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#Holoc...
That's quite a leap from questioning why the federal government websites aren't translated into local languages. Care to share examples of such disrespect?
"Good examples of treatment of minorities are Finland with their treatment of the Swedish minorities there"
How would you rate pre-war treatment of language minorities in the Ukraine?
"In April 2019, the Ukrainian parliament voted a new law, the Law of Ukraine "to ensure the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the State language". On 16 June 2019, the law entered into force. The law made the use of Ukrainian compulsory (totally or within certain quotas) in the work of some public authorities, in the electoral procedures and political campaigning, in pre-school, school and university education, in scientific, cultural and sporting activities, in book publishing and book distribution, in printed mass media, television and radio broadcasting, in economic and social life (commercial advertising, public events), in hospitals and nursing homes, and in the activities of political parties and other legal entities (e.g. non-governmental organizations) registered in Ukraine." [0]
"So at which percentage"
Ukrainian answer was 10% [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine