– Where would it be possible to destroy the country? How might this take place? How to counteract Russian tactics? – Russia needs a weak Ukraine, so the Russian special services are working hard and will continue exacerbating...
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules that will restore Ukrainian spellings to what they were in 1919 before the Soviet regime “Russianized”...
The Euromonitor group, using UN and national data sets, reports that the number of people using Russian in the post-Soviet states has declined by ten percent or more since 1994, a decline that reflects the re-orientation of these nations...
In 1900, one in every seven people on earth spoke Russian; now only one in 50 does, a decline that is mirrored within Russia itself, according to Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, who says that “in a number of regions, as...
During the XVII-XX ct, Ukraine was split up between various empires and states. The ruling regime of each of them tried to assimilate Ukrainians and prevent their self-determination by destroying what made them different: their language...
Teachers of Ukrainian language and literature who have remained in “DNR” controlled territories have been ordered to re-qualify their knowledge in Russian language and literature. They may refuse, but will have to find a new job....
The Russian language used by Vladimir Putin — unlike the language of Pushkin — “doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors or the world,” Kateryna Shchetkina says, not only because of his actions but also because of his...
At the end of last week, Eleonora Mitrofanova, Moscow’s ambassador for special assignments, said that “the Russian language must be given legal status in the countries of the former USSR,” an indication many in these states fear the...
This law, passed with flagrant violations of Verkhovna Rada regulations, should be differently named, namely “On principles of granting the Russian language the status of official language” because that is, in fact its essence and...
Despite the insistence of Moscow officials that everyone in the Russian Federation speaks Russian and that therefore support for other languages is ever less necessary, Igor Barinov, head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Nationality...
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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