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2017/06/23 - 12:21 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s sovereignty and independence by transforming a portion of the Kazakhs into a Russian-speaking people that Moscow will then insist...
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2017/06/12 - 12:55 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine
The Kremlin isn’t pleased that the number of Ukrainians who use Russian is declining, but it if far more concerned with something else: the possibility even likelihood that “Russian too obviously is ceasing to be the language of the...
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2017/04/15 - 11:27 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
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...
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2017/03/05 - 11:12 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
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...
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2017/02/18 - 11:14 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/02/10 - 18:22 •
Culture, Language, News, Russia, Ukraine, War in the Donbas
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....
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2017/01/10 - 16:11 •
Analysis & Opinion, Language
If the French were to listen to English music all day, Turkish people to Arabic songs, if Poles sang German songs for the New Year, and the Japanese chanted in Chinese, these countries and their peoples would soon cease to exist. But, in...
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2016/12/03 - 00:47 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
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...
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2016/12/01 - 22:27 •
Analysis & Opinion
Pending the decision of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the law “On the principles of state language policy” of Serhiy Kivalov and Vadym Kolesnichenko, it is worth reviewing the prehistory and...
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2016/11/22 - 08:29 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
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...
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