Ukrainian city announces 'language inspectors' --Ivano-Frankovsk will introduce inspectors to force residents to conform to new rules | 10 Sept 2024 | The city of Ivano-Frankovsk in western Ukraine will soon introduce "language inspectors" to police and censor the increasing use of Russian, Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv stated on Monday. He made the announcement after a meeting with State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin, Kiev's top official for implementing the use of Ukrainian in citizens' everyday lives. The city has various programs to popularize Ukrainian, Martsinkiv said. Among other things, "we've decided to launch a public initiative of language inspectors," promising to disclose more details in due course. The measure is necessary, he claimed, because "unfortunately" there has been an increasing amount of Russian speech in Ivano-Frankovsk, "and that is a problem." [It's only a "problem" to the sociopaths in the Ukrainian Nazi regime -- not to anyone else.]