Markje
For how many hours was it going to be UA policy to 'ban' Russian?
Let's stick to FACTS ..
More like years under poroshenko.
But I'm sure you know some ukrainian lawyer who happens to be your friends uncle and will testify otherwise, despite it being in the news multiple times.
Editted to add: 2012-2018 so it was before Poroshenko's election. However it wasnt enforced by Yanu.
Lets quote wikipedia a bit, even though I dislike wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_UkraineHowever the move to repeal the 2012 law "On the principles of the state language policy" provoked negative reactions in Crimea and in some regions of Southern and Eastern Ukraine. It became one of the topics of the protests against the new government approved by the parliament after the flight of Viktor Yanukovich.[51] In this context, the next major development was the Crimean crisis.
Passage of the repeal bill was met with regret by the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.[52] The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities expressed concern over possible further unrest. He also proposed to give advice and facilitate discussions on new legislation, declaring that "we must avoid the mistakes made last time [in 2012] when unbalanced legislation was adopted without a proper dialogue in the Verkhovna Rada."[53] The bill was also criticized by the Ambassador for Human Rights of the Russian foreign ministry.[54] Bulgarian and Romanian foreign ministers evaluated it as a step in the wrong direction,[55] and the Greek foreign minister expressed disappointment.[56] The Hungarian foreign ministry expressed serious concerns, noting that the decision "could question the commitment of the new Ukrainian administration towards democracy".[57] The Polish foreign minister called it a mistake.[58]
But of course , moby you know better than all those people who knew this law to be in effect from 2012 - 2018. In 2019 a new law was signed stating Ukrainian the official government language but Russian is allowed on the streets.