Igor Miroshnichenko

Ukrainian parliamentarian recommends beating students AND teachers with sticks for speaking Russian

A member of the Ukrainian far-right party Svoboda has suggested that both students and teachers should be beaten with sticks is they are caught speaking Russian in a school. The suggestion comes even though Russian is the lingua-franca for much of the population of Ukraine and is frequently spoken in public, private and in the work place across all regions.
This hasn’t stopped Igor Miroshnichenko from stating,