Page "Georgiy Gongadze" Paragraph 48

After a recent linguistic reform, Ukrainians have recovered the letter Ґ ( Ghe with upturn ) for G, a letter which had been banned during the Soviet Union.

The letter Ґ, which is now used for G and just named " Ghe " in Ukrainian, was re-introduced after the independence of Ukraine, instead of the letter Г ( used for G and named " Ghe " in Russian, but now named " He " and used for H in Ukrainian ).

It had been banned by the Soviet linguistic reform of 1933 as being " non-Ukrainian " ( possibly because the Ukrainian letter followed more closely the model of the Gamma letter of the Greek Alphabet, by not adopting the very distinctive letterform of the Russian letter " Ghe " used in cursive and italic styles ).