Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

Since the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine on June 28, 1996, the need for legislative regulation of the functioning and development of the state language and other languages has emerged. However, the law on linguistic policy or individual laws on the state language and languages of national minorities has not been adopted yet. Between 2017 and 2018, next bills appear and are registered in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: No. 5556 “About Languages in Ukraine”; No. 5669 “About the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language and the Using Procedure of Other Languages in Ukraine”; No. 5670 “About the State Language”; No. 8550 “About General Principles and Principles of the Implementation of Language Policy in Ukraine”. On October 4, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading the bill No. 5670-d “About the State Language” (revised Bill No. 5670) with the condition of its unification to the second reading with Bill No. 5556. The purpose of the article is based on the characteristics of language policy in Ukraine, the recognition of its society ineffective and the circumstances of the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the bill No. 5670-d in the first reading to justify the possibility of its adoption as a law without the condition of association with other bills in the part concerning the order of application of others as. During the preparation of the article used some general scientific and special-scientific methods of knowledge, in particular, historical, philosophical and legal, comparative, systemic, functional, generalization. The main scientific results of the paper are based on the analysis of the parliamentary hearings “On the functioning of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine” approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on May 22, 2003, individual decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine on ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, that the adoption of the bill No. 5670-d in the first reading with the condition of joining it before the adoption in the second reading and in general, as a law with the bill No. 5556 postpone the issue for an indefinite time on the legislative regulation of the functioning and development of the state language in Ukraine. The article concludes that the Bill No. 5670-d can be adopted as a law. At the same time, the necessity of preparing and adopting the law on the languages of national minorities, which would be in line with the provisions of the adopted law on the state language and fully comply with the provisions of the European Charter, provided that it is translated from the original language (French or English) into Ukrainian and reratified