Bulgaria has expressed fears for the fate of the ethnic Bulgarians in Ukraine, but Kiev has protested the interference in the internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities are going to divide the Bolgrad district of the Odessa region five communities where ethnic Bulgarians are the majority, reports TASS.
The national Assembly of Bulgaria urged his government to take measures to preserve the integrity of the Bulgarian community.
The Ukrainian foreign Ministry said that such matters “fall within the exclusive competence of bodies of state power of Ukraine”. Kiev said that “attempts of intervention of a foreign state is unacceptable.”
Kiev said that “manipulative” claims about the impact of the reforms on the national identity of ethnic Bulgarians of Ukraine “surprise and misunderstanding”, RIA “Novosti”.
According to unofficial data, Bolgarskom area is home to 250 to 300 thousand ethnic Bulgarians.
We will remind, in Kiev also raised tensions with Hungary on the background of discussions about the Ukrainian law on education, significantly reduces the possibility of education in minority languages.
Hungary demands the return of the Transcarpathian Hungarians the right to education in their native language. Kiev accuses Hungary in the attempt to create an enclave on the territory of Ukraine.
Russia also opposed new legislation in Ukraine which significantly infringes on the rights of the many Russian-speaking inhabitants of the country.
