To the next attempt to save the language
The reaction — Russian doesn’t bother us,
Ukrainian loyalty again and again
Steps on the same rake.

Hearing from afar “nye panimayu,”
The tongue suddenly betrays,
At once I forget my native one,
I am more used to the foreign.

Children grow, and after them grandchildren.
Let us be ready, so they do not surprise us,
If soon we have to hear
“We are Russians, because our parents
Spoke Russian.”