[sam_lowry_]

I've been in Ukraine last year and one thing I noticed that while people speak in Russian or in a dialect in private, they instantly switch to Ukrainian in public, like when ordering an ice cream from the street stall. They then switch back among them. It's fascinating how things changed in a few years.

[stychos]

That what I mean above, most people don't speak "modern Ukrainian". Even the language itself drastically changed on TV just in years.