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Russian language
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Kyiv City bans Russian-language entertainment in public places
At a meeting on 13 July, the Council’s deputies adopted a decision to ban the public use of…
Ukraine ceases to be a bilingual country, polls and speaking practice show
[editorial]For the first time since Ukraine’s Independence, Ukrainians speak Ukrainian overwhelmingly more than Russian. Before 2014, both languages…
Why Ukraine can’t solve its language problem by adopting policies from Switzerland or France
[editorial]What language policies could be a solution for Ukraine? Many westerners view Ukraine as a linguistically divided country…
More than one Ukrainian in four speaks Polish, new survey finds
A new survey finds that 28 percent of Ukrainians say they have some knowledge of Polish, yet another…
Post-Euromaidan gains for Ukrainian language challenged by creeping Russification and state indiffirence
[editorial]After the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, the Ukrainian language flowered amid what has been called a national awakening.…
Writer Andriy Liubka: O sancta simplicitas!
With just a few words, Olena Yeremeyeva, producer of Ukrainian series and films on 1 + 1 channel,…
Should Ukraine take over the Russian language? Scrutinizing Prof. Snyder’s arguments
The Russian language issue Of course, the Ukrainian variety of Russian is different from the varieties existing in…
Putin’s ‘Russian world’ continues to contract
Despite Vladimir Putin’s aggressive Russification program at home and his promotion of the Russian language abroad, the Kremlin…
Three telling poll results from Belarus
Polls in authoritarian countries like Belarus are hardly reliable given that many people there doubt that surveys are…
Kyiv moves to restore pre-Soviet Ukrainian spellings, infuriating Moscow
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules…
Broad coalition of non-Russians launch Internet petition drive against Putin’s language policies
Representatives of a significant cross-section of non-Russian nations now within the borders of the Russian Federation have launched…
Ukraine and Hungary both claim victory in Ukrainian education language argument
Ukraine wanted to receive the expert conclusion of the Venice Commission first of all to neutralize the political…
Moscow can’t close Ukrainian language schools in Russia because there aren’t any
A major reason that Moscow has to struggle to find symmetrical responses to anything other countries do is…
‘Russian Security Agencies Said Increasing Recruitment of Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russia Disappearing from Radar Screen of Young Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘UN: Human Rights in Crimea Have Deteriorated Since Occupation’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russian Banking System on Brink of Collapse’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Ukrainians turning away from Russia not only politically but culturally
To no one’s surprise, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine has alienated Ukrainians politically from the former imperial center; but…
Kremlin agents seeking to reduce part of Kazakhs to a Russian-speaking sub-ethnos of the Russian nation, Gali says
The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s…
Moscow worried Russian ‘ceasing to be language of majority’ in Ukraine, Shchetkina says
The Kremlin isn’t pleased that the number of Ukrainians who use Russian is declining, but it if far…