{"id":1872,"date":"2025-08-20T02:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:48","slug":"ukrainian-footballer-gets-yellow-card-for-speaking-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/ukrainian-footballer-gets-yellow-card-for-speaking-russian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian footballer gets yellow card for speaking Russian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kiev has sought to restrict the use of the language in public since the 2014 Euromaidan coup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"348\">A Ukrainian football player was shown a yellow card for refusing to stop speaking Russian on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"616\">The incident occurred Sunday during a Ukrainian Women\u2019s Top League game between Kolos from the Kiev region and SeaSters from the Black Sea port city of Odessa.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"838\">Referee Anastasia Romanyuk paused the game around the 43rd minute to show a yellow card to SeaSters midfielder Irina Maiborodina.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"838\">The decision sparked a brief argument between Romanyuk and SeaSters coach Denis Kolchin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"1068\"><em>\u201cThe yellow card was given for dissent [with the referee\u2019s decision]. This is a Ukrainian championship, so we are not speaking Russian. I asked the player to speak Ukrainian,\u201d<\/em> Romanyuk said, according to news website Sport.ua.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/622171-ukraine-russian-songs-ban\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Ukrainian official calls for ban on singing in Russian<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1322\">Since the Western-backed coup in 2014, Ukraine has passed several laws restricting the use of Russian in public.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Freedom &amp; democracy: Ukrainian player is fined with &#8220;yellow card&#8221; for speaking Russian in Ukrainian Women&#8217;s Premier League football (soccer) match in Kyiv region. Referee stopped the match &amp; stated that Ukrainian must be spoken on the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nyhIxxSMmH\">pic.twitter.com\/nyhIxxSMmH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/I_Katchanovski\/status\/1957864615288717590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1322\">Politicians and influencers have campaigned to discourage speaking Russians, which they describe as <em>\u201cthe language of the aggressor state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1324\" data-end=\"1460\">Moscow has maintained that the treatment of the Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine is one of the key causes of the current conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev has sought to restrict the use of the language in public since the 2014 Euromaidan coup A Ukrainian football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}