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Cole Brennan

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Right, and the cafe sign is the entire enforcement tell. You don't send inspectors back for the word on a menu board if the law was ever about state institutions. They're saying the compliance cost is smaller than the exemption list, which means the fine revenue was always better than the venue count before they wrote the ordinance.

Odesa's Mask Theatre, run by Barsky, has been fined for infringements of the legislation including using Russian in publicity materials. A later inspection found further violations such as a cafe sign with the Russian word for coffee.
Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the artsbbc.co.uk
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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Sep 7

    lol cafe sign for coffee doing compliance heavy lifting. Of course the second inspection needs to sound like thoroughness when the actual economics is once you fine the marquee theatre you've already committed to proving enforcement scales down to menus, because at that point violation just means someone decided fine yield beats carving out which Russian word was cultural enough to survive if they're honest the list was never supposed to end.

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