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As a consequence of historical events, a significant part of the Ukrainian population uses Russian in their everyday life, while knowing Ukrainian to only a small degree or not at all. As a result, the government implemented a language policy to ensure the stable functioning of a modern state for a multilingual society. This report outlines the language issue in Ukraine and its social context, with a particular focus placed on important questions which are usually overlooked such as trade (commercial) aspects of language regulations in the media and the key role of the "language issue" in Ukraine's identity policy.