Abstract
The article analyzes the impact of ethno-linguistic policy on the separatism and political instability in Ukraine. The article examines the current provisions of the legislation of Ukraine on the development of language policy, as well as the provisions of the latest Law on the status of the state language in Ukraine.Ukraine has severalspecific features from the linguistic point of view, they are: bilingualism, uneven distribution of Russian and Ukrainian languages on the territory of the country and in different sectors of the social sphere, as well as ethno-linguistic, social and socio-cultural polarization of the Western, Central and South-Eastern parts of the country.
 
 The Ukrainian language was recognized as the state languagein Ukraine in 1989. This preceded the signing of the Declaration on the State Independence of Ukraine in 1991. From that moment on, the Ukrainian language is considered a symbol of the new Ukraine. Raising the status of the Ukrainian language has become one of the central issues in the process of building an independent state. 
 
 The UN Security Council discussion in July 2019 on the language policy in Ukraine showed the world community's concern over the problem of ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens and national minorities in Ukraine in connection with the adoption of the Law on the legal status of the state Ukrainian language and its use in education and public life.
 
 The analysis focuses on the trends in the development of language policy, which is the source of aggravation of social processes in the form of separatism and destabilization of modern Ukraine and attempts of its modern political regime to finally complete the reorientation from Russia to the West at the legislative language level.
Highlights
The Ukrainian language was recognized as the state languagein Ukraine in 1989
The analysis focuses on the trends in the development of language policy, which is the source of aggravation of social processes in the form of separatism and destabilization of modern Ukraine and attempts of its modern political regime to complete the reorientation from Russia to the West at the legislative language level
The conservative criticism of the modern political regime of Ukraine and its language policy in one way or another generate a discussion, the nature and content of which, on the one hand, inspires those who would like in the ongoing language policy to gain strength in the fact that the Ukrainian language will become a powerful national tool that will transform the human flow into a nation through the storage and transfer of culture, traditions and social consciousness of the people
Summary
The Law “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language” came into force in Ukraine on July 16 this year. Specificity and originality of conditions for separatism and political instability in Ukraine.No matter how attractive the language policy in Ukraine is and no matter how powerful the Law “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language” is, the claims of its initiators and authors can be debunked and devalued, even exposed by the reality itself. This can be explained by a number of circumstances and conditions in which Ukraine has been immersed and remains. It can be seen from the above data that with the adoption of the Law, the existing contradictions and disagreements in the society regarding the linguistic appearance of the country have sufficient grounds to move into the category of direct threats to the socio-political stability of the country and provoke a new wave of separatism
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