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Opposition supporters sing the national anthem during a rally against a bill to limit Ukrainian language in schools outside the parliament in Kiev on July 17, 2020. - A deputy in the party of President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed legislation that would reduce the use of Ukrainian language in schools. A large proportion of the population speaks Russian, which was the dominant language in the Soviet Union and the Tsarist era. Critics of the bill say it paves the way for the "total Russification of education". (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)