Panasyuk L. Bilingualism as a factor in the political development of Ukraine.

In the thesis for the first time in the Ukrainian political science the complex analysis of the phenomenon of bilingualism and its influence on political development of Ukraine is carried out. The retrospective review of influence of political factors on reduction of social power of Ukrainian language and distribution of Russian as a result of a stateless state of Ukrainians, co-opting of elite, assimilations of the Ukrainian population (first of all the peasantry), in the process of formation of educational system of the Russian Empire, religious and church absorption, cultural and migration policy of the mother country is carried out. It is proved that political and legal activity of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union was directed on distribution and providing of the dominating status of Russian language; formation of legal field of independent Ukraine took place in the conditions of a mass bilingualism and was defined by servility policy and unstable balance of the statuses of the Ukrainian and Russian languages, - now the legislative base of the state creates a basis for distribution of Russian language in Ukraine at the expense of the Russified Ukrainian population, and also alien ethnic minorities (Law "About Fundamentals of the State Language Policy"). Politological measurement of studying of a role of bilingualism in the creation of nation processes, formation of statehood and modern Ukrainian national identity gained further development. The main problems of social political and language development of Ukraine in the conditions of mass Ukrainian Russian bilingualism are defined and recommendations are offered to government bodies.