criticized by the governments of Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Greece and other countries. In particular, Hungary promised to stop cooperation with Ukraine within the framework of the EU and NATO. The need to preserve the rights of minorities to education at the current level is stated in the documents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the resolution of the Eastern Partnership Summit of the EU. The necessity to support and develop the state Ukrainian language is beyond doubt. And the Ukrainian authorities argued for the adoption of this law by a low level of knowledge of the state language in some compact ethnic groups - Romanian and Hungarian. Around this issue in Ukraine today there is a high wave of political speculation, which is powered by the high level of radicalism among Ukrainian youth and the war in the Donbas. Artificially, another socio-political crisis was created in Ukraine. At the same time, we are convinced that the interest of the development of the state language doesn’t go against the rights of national minorities to study in their native language. In this issue, a compromise is quite possible. To this end, the state has the right to improve the quality of teaching the state language, the number of hours to study it, without any prohibition on teaching the languages of national minorities. But, unfortunately, the issue is very politicized and the Ukrainian state does not conduct an effective dialogue with national minorities and a specialized expert community on this issue. In the establishment of such dialogue and mediation of the problem, the role of international organizations like UN and the community is very important. Ruslan Bortnik, Ukrainian Institute for Analysis and Management of Policy (Ukraine) +380509748341, rbrtnk@gmail.com, www.uiamp.org.ua 2