what is the official language of the ukraine?
Ukrainian Language
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 The Constitution also establishes Belarusian and Russian as the official languages of the country , pledges neutrality and non @-@ nuclear proliferation , adopts national symbols , and establishes Minsk as the capital ( Minsk was previously the capital of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic ) . 

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 In a Russification drive in the 1840s , Nicholas I prohibited the use of Belarusian language in public schools , campaigned against Belarusian publications and tried to pressure those who had converted to Catholicism under the Poles to reconvert to the Orthodox faith . In 1863 , economic and cultural pressure exploded into a revolt , led by Kalinowski . After the failed revolt , the Russian government reintroduced the use of Cyrillic to Belarusian in 1864 and no documents in Belarusian were permitted by Russian government until 1905 . 

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 Avar language ( historically ) , later replaced in the 17th century by Arabic and by the Cyrillic script in modern times . 

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 The languages have not undergone the deliberate highlighting of minor linguistic differences in the name of nationalism as has occurred in the Bosnian , Serbian and Croatian standards of Serbo @-@ Croatian . However , most Slavic languages ( including Czech ) have been distanced in this way from Russian influences because of widespread public resentment against the former Soviet Union ( which occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968 ) . Czech and Slovak form a dialect continuum , with great similarity between neighboring Czech and Slovak dialects . ( See " Dialects " below . ) 

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 Ingush language ( historically ) , later replaced in the 17th century by Arabic and by the Cyrillic script in modern times . 
