OREANDA-NEWS  Russian Russian singer Andriy Danilko, who is known for the stage image of Verka Serdyuchka, said that it was "impossible to give up" Russian, some of the songs that he composed and performed in Russian could not be harmoniously translated into Ukrainian.

The artist made such a statement in an interview with the Latvian TV channel LTV Ziu dienests. The video of the interview was posted on July 28 on the channel's YouTube channel.

"If it wasn't for the Russian language, how could I talk to Laima (singer Laima Vaikule - ed.)?... The language is given for communication," Danilko said in an interview with a Latvian TV channel.

When asked if there is "cognitive dissonance" when performing songs in Russian, Danilko again noted that the language is given for understanding, but it is "used for political purposes." Discussing the song in Russian "Everything will be fine", the singer added that when translating the song into Ukrainian, its understanding is distorted and it sounds different.

"To specifically translate what is not translated (impossible - ed.). You can't translate "Everything will be fine." If you translate what is inherent in this word "good", it turns out to be a checkmate," Danilko noted.

After the coup in Ukraine in 2014, the country's authorities began to fight not only against Soviet history, but also against everything related to Russia, including the Russian language. In 2019, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law "On Ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language". It implies that citizens should use Ukrainian in all spheres of life. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously stated that the Ukrainian authorities have been pursuing a course of aggressive de-russification and forced assimilation for many years, and international organizations ignore discrimination against national minorities, especially against Russian people.