DISINFO: Russians are discriminated under Ukrainian law
SUMMARY
Ukraine has adopted legislation which limits the rights of Russians. One of these laws asserts that Russians are a non-titular nation of Ukraine, as well as other laws which restrict the rights of such non-titular groups.
RESPONSE
The term "titular nation" is absent from Ukrainian legislation. It was however, informally used by Soviet authorities to determine dominant ethnonational groups in each of the Union's 15 republics.
In 2021, Ukrainian parliament passed the Law of Ukraine "On the Indigenous People of Ukraine," which defines an indigenous group as an "autochtonous ethnic community which formed on the territory of Ukraine, is a bearer of a distinct language and culture, has traditional, social, cultural, or representative bodies, self-identifies as an indigenous people of Ukraine, constitute an ethnic minority within its [Ukraine's] population, and does not have its own state outside the borders of Ukraine."
Under this law, neither Ukrainians nor Russians are classified as indigenous to Ukraine. This title is instead reserved for the indigenous inhabitants of Crimea - Crimean Tatars, Karaims, and Krymchaks.