Thanks to Yanukovich. When I traveled to the Donbas in November, 2005 to get married, all official documentation had to be provided in Ukrainian --despite the fact that residents of the Donbas speak Russian. Something you will learn when you visit there.
That's like asking immigrants coming to US to learn English when they fill up official documents. That's just crazy. My goodness, how did your wife take to all the English being spoken in America?