To no one’s surprise, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine has alienated Ukrainians politically from the former imperial center; but more important but less noticed, it is increasingly leading them to turn away from Russia culturally, a...
Some eighty prominent political and cultural leaders in Ukraine have signed an appeal to the Verkhovana Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine to pass the proposed draft law designed to ensure the full implementation of Article 10 of the...
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...
Russian politicians and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine love the myth that the Ukrainian language is a big problem for people living in southeastern Ukraine. After the country turned westward following the Euromaidan revolution, Russian...
Professor Moser talks about the current situation of Ukrainian studies, disciplines and centers in the West and East. – It’s quite telling to analyze the status of Ukrainian studies at various universities. In fact, there are very...
Moscow relies on endlessly inventive rhetoric when it is a question of defaming its real or imaginary enemies or exonerating itself. There are no boundaries. Some 150 years ago, Moscow proclaimed that the Ukrainian language “did...
Ivan Dziuba in a recent interview recalled how, during the “anti-Maidan” demonstrations in Donetsk, local women carried a banner with the words “Abolish the Ukrainian language as useless.” The women, obviously, were...
The extensive free course of Ukrainian teaches basic vocabulary as well as working Ukrainian for those who need it in their everyday work environment. The students are originally from Russia, others were born in Kyiv, but have been brought...
The books confiscated from the Ukrainian Library will probably be taken to another location, which won’t be called “Ukrainian” (a dangerous word per se!), and will not resemble – at least provisionally – a cultural...
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...
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Is Poroshenko just like Yanukovych?
It's been three years since the election of Petro Poroshenko as President of Ukraine. Is he following in Yanukovych's footsteps? There are many reasons many arguments for and against. that statement. What do you think?
On 14 August 2017, the New York Times published an article by Pulitzer winning journalists William Broad and David E. Sanger stating that North Korea’s recent ballistic missile success is explained by black market purchases of rocket...
