KIEV, September 17 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian authorities can revoke in six months the law granting the self-proclaimed eastern republics of Dontesk and Luhansk a three-year period of special status within the country if “order is established,” Ihor Hryniv, adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, said in the early hours of Wednesday.
“It expires in three years but it may expire in six months if order is established. It may expire in one year,” Hryniv said.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament approved a bill granting special status to self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people’s republics for the next three years. The law gives the Ukrainian Cabinet and other central executive bodies the power to sign agreements with local administrative bodies on social, economic, cultural and other issues.
Under the bill, Russian and other languages have equal status with Ukrainian, and the state guarantees the right to use Russian or any other language publicly or privately. The bill also sets early local elections for December 7.
