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Russian language
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Russian language use in post-Soviet space declining precipitously
The Euromonitor group, using UN and national data sets, reports that the number of people using Russian in…
Russian language knowledge declining precipitously in the world and even in Russia, Matviyenko says
In 1900, one in every seven people on earth spoke Russian; now only one in 50 does, a…
‘Moscow names Kuril island to honor Hero of Ukraine Derevyanko’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Expert: Russia willing to tolerate Ukrainians as “slightly different Russians”
Teachers of Ukrainian language and literature who have remained in “DNR” controlled territories have been ordered to re-qualify…
Ukrainian politician: If we won’t speak Ukrainian, we will forever remain slaves of Russia
If the French were to listen to English music all day, Turkish people to Arabic songs, if Poles…
Putin’s language doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors but does threaten Russia, Shchetkina says
The Russian language used by Vladimir Putin — unlike the language of Pushkin — “doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors…
The “Russian World” and the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko language law in Ukraine
Pending the decision of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the law “On the principles of state…
Moscow wields Russian again as hybrid weapon against its neighbors
At the end of last week, Eleonora Mitrofanova, Moscow’s ambassador for special assignments, said that “the Russian language…
Russian language knowledge declining in country’s non-Russian republics, Barinov says
Despite the insistence of Moscow officials that everyone in the Russian Federation speaks Russian and that therefore support…
Ukrainian becoming de facto the language of Ukraine, Viatrovych says
Kyiv’s announcement that railway stations in Ukraine within three months will have signs in Ukrainian and English but…
War against Ukraine: the second humanities front
As you surf Ukrainian sites, you can see maps of different “hot spots” in Ukraine. As a rule,…
Warning to Kremlin: Its non-Russians likely to become the Irish of the 21st century
Russian officials have long operated on the assumption that if they can force non-Russians in their country to…
Kremlin’s double standards on language issues in post-Soviet space continued
More than most governments, the Kremlin behaves in exactly the same way it routinely accuses other countries of…
Moscow’s invasion hasn’t affected Russian language rights in Ukraine, experts say
Despite Moscow’s claims and the expectations of some others, Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea and its invasion of the…
Fewer Russians but more Russian speakers: The changing face of Russia
The number and percentage of ethnic Russians in Astrakhan has been declining two to three percent every decade,…
Russia ‘for first time in its history’ has lost its monopoly on the Russian language, Zhadan says
The bilingual Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan, who writes exclusively in Ukrainian, says that Russia “for the first time…
Ukraine should shift from Cyrillic to Latin script, former Verkhovna Rada deputy says
To solidify its break from a Russia-dominated space, Ukraine should shift from the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian…
Putin and the evolving politics of prepositions about Ukraine
The use of “v” versus the use of “na” as a preposition about being “in Ukraine” has become…
Putin’s pursuit of ‘Russian world’ is destroying it
Vladimir Putin has made the Russian language a key element in his definition of “the Russian world” he wants…
By supporting Chechen across Russia, Grozny challenges Moscow’s language policy — and with Moscow’s money
Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov has challenged Moscow in many ways, but now it has taken on a new…