No, nothing like. Russia blocked mandatory requirements for teaching those languages -- but still allows them to be taught by voluntary request of the parents of students. Ukraine banned outright the use of the Russian language -- spoken by a quarter of their citizens.
Why lie? Ukraine never banned the use of Russian language. There was only a requirement in January to have media use Ukrainian language as the primary language for publications. Russian was never banned, and Russian or other languages are STILL ALLOWED as long as it is accompanied by Ukranian.
"The provision, which entered into force on January 16, is stipulated in article 25 of the law. It requires print media outlets registered in Ukraine to publish in Ukrainian. Publications in other languages must also be accompanied by a Ukrainian version, equivalent in content, volume, and method of printing."
As for the Russian genocide of minority languages, Russia is implementing the mandatory teaching of Russian language and Russian culture in public schools in the homeland regions of the natives, while blocking the mandatory teaching of the native's own languages that the minorities want. Russia is even fining people for refusing to drop mandatory ethnic minority language classes. Voluntary request doesn't mean much when there has been a systematic erosion and discrimination agianst their use in Russia. It's not a coincidence that minority languages have declined significantly.
"Kazan School Director Faces Suspension For Refusal To Abolish Mandatory Tatar Classes" ... "The director of a private school in Russia's Tatarstan region faces suspension or a heavy fine for refusing to drop mandatory Tatar-language classes. In a December 7 ruling, a court in the regional capital, Kazan, rejected Pavel Shmakov's complaint against local prosecutors whom he accused of ordering his school to abandon mandatory Tatar classes without first inspecting its curriculum."
The culture of fear and state pressure is doing a great job at genociding the culture of ethnic minorities.
Mar 15, 2022: President Zelenskyy’s government suspended 11 Ukrainian political parties over claimed “links with Russia” ... One of the banned parties, the Opposition Platform for Life, came in second in the recent elections ....
I'll give you that one about the Opposition for Life Party. Poroshenko's European Solidarity party as an opposition party fell into 3rd place. So you just have the 3rd, 4th, etc largest opposition parties still around as the 2nd one was banned for being pro-Russian after the Russians invaded.
That is still amateurish when compared to Putin considering Putin managed to get rid of all real major opposition parties, imprison any real opposing leaders, kill dissidents, and the few opposition that are allowed to remain have to parrot Putin's agenda. And Putin destroyed his opposition before he invaded Ukraine and without any external threats like a foreign country invading them. That is true dictatorial power.
And let's not forget that Putin has been assassinating dissidents on European soil left and right. Putin's thugs poisoned former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko with polonium because he released evidence on Putin's role in his false flag operation of blowing up Russian apartments in 1999 in order to blame Chechens and justify an invasion of Chechnya so he could consolidate power and become a dictator and rule for 20+ years. Or how Putin's thugs posioned Sergei and Yulia Skripal with Novichok nerve agent, which ended up causing collateral damage of killing random innocent bystanders.
You're right. Ukraine's ultranationalist paramilitary groups like Aidar and the Azov Battalion have been repeatedly cited by the UN, the EU, and even the US Congress for their acts of terror against ethnic minorities in Ukraine, in their goal of "racial purification" of the homeland. Russia may treat its citizens poorly, but it treats them all equally poorly.By the way, how did Ukraine respond to the sanctioning of the Azov Battalion? They officially integrated them into their armed forces.
I was wondering when you were going to play that card about the Azov Battalion. Russia under Putin complaining about Ukranian nationalist is the pot calling the kettle black. Putin's Russia is one of the largest if not the largest source of NeoNazis in the world, and many Ukranian NeoNazis originally had their roots in Russia.
Have you ever heard of Wagner Group (Putin's famous private mercenaries) that use Neo-Nazi slogans and symbols such as 14/88? The founder of Wagner Group has NeoNazi tatoos, and the group is even named after Hitler's favorite German composer. Look up other Russian NeoNazi paramilitary groups such as Rusich - there are literally photos of its leader NeoNazi Alexei Milchakov posing with the Nazi Swastika flags. Putin's advisor/political party strategist Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a well known fascist. Russia has some of the largest numbers of NeoNazis in the world. Go look up the following NeoNazi organizations in Russia: Eurasian Youth Union, Front of National Revolutionary Action, Northern Alliance, Pamyat (now the The National Patriotic Front and The Russian National Unity), Russian National Socialist Party, Russian National Unity, Barkashov's Guards, Slavic Union, Format18, the National Socialist Society, etc. Russia has tons and tons of NeoNazi and Fascist people and groups, many of whom crossed over into Ukraine to form Ukranian NeoNazi groups. Russia under Putin also basically didn't do anything about their own NeoNazis (at least not until recently when it became obviously hypocritical that they let their own Nazis run around while criticizing Ukranian Nazis).
So no, Russia does not equally treat its citizens. The Russian Slavs have far more power than others, and Russian NeoNazis have significant power and numbers. Did you know about the harassment and discrimination that north Caucasus workers face in Russia? Here is an article from several years ago: "President Vladimir Putin personally triggered the anti-Georgian frenzy by complaining, in a televised meeting, that non-Slavs from the Caucasus region dominate farmer’s markets in most cities, incurring the wrath of native Russians. “The indignation of citizens is right,” Putin said. “(We must) protect the interests of Russian manufacturers and Russia’s native population.” Putin may have been trying to gather support for his tough policy against Georgia, which includes a complete cutoff of trade, transport and even postal links. But in targeting Georgian businesses, he handed a gift to the outright racist Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), which calls for expelling all non-Slavs from Russian cities, whether they are Russian citizens or not."
Today, Putin himself claimed that Ukraine shouldn't exist and it should be a part of a broader Russo-Slavic identity. Putin's ethnonationalistic justifications of protecting Slavs and forming a pan-Slav empire mirror Hitler's claims of invading other countries to protect Germans and creating a pan-Germanic Empire. Speaking of NeoNazis, Putin only has to look in a mirror. Russia is Ukraine's (and the world's) greatest source of NeoNazism.