The referendum ran from 17 January to 17 March 2006, was a public opinion poll on the question of granting Russian as the second official language.

"[citation needed] In 2011, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a bill on an experiment in information technology, co-authored by Viktor Yanukovych.

This policy provides protection and promotion of national films on both domestic and international markets through tax incentives, financial, and legal support.

This covers all manufacturers, distributors and demonstrators, as well as suppliers of services for production, including replication of national and foreign films, duplicated, voiced, or subtitled in the official language in the territory of Ukraine.

Yanukovych died on the evening of 20 March 2015 when he fell through the ice while driving his minivan on Lake Baikal.

Yanukovych had driven his vehicle out on the ice near Khoboi Cape on the northern edge of Olkhon Island.

[7] Russian authorities refused to comment on reports of Yanukovych's death and did not respond to a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry query about it.

[8] A report about the 20 March 2015 accident that killed Yanukovych was removed from the Russian Ministry of Emergencies website shortly after it was posted.