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...
– There were thousands and thousands of empty houses that had once belonged to Ukrainian families. Moscow’s strategy was simple: move Russian families to these homes and russify the eastern regions of Ukraine. That...
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...
Do you know what’s in common between music classes in Japan and Taras Shevcheko, or between Seoul and invisible river Poltva in Lviv? It’s alright if you don’t. You’d need to learn Ukrainian to find out. This...
Kyiv’s announcement that railway stations in Ukraine within three months will have signs in Ukrainian and English but not in Russian shows Ukrainian is becoming de facto and not just de jure language of Ukraine and that Ukrainians...
As you surf Ukrainian sites, you can see maps of different “hot spots” in Ukraine. As a rule, they’re clearly marked along the demarcation line in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. In fact, front lines should also be...
Stanislav Fedorchuk, political scientist and internally displaced person from Donetsk, believes that the war in Ukraine is a direct consequence of Ukraine’s weak language policy in Crimea and the Donbas where whole generations have...
Over the past two years, much has been written about the “Ukraine crisis.” This phrase is, in fact, a euphemism, used purposefully by some and sloppily by others. In both cases, however, use of the euphemism...
Marie France, qui êtes-vous? Racontez-nous votre parcours familial et professionnel. Ancienne élève de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Agrégée de Lettres, j’ai enseigné la...
In recent years the term “propaganda” has become more and more associated with Russia’s media and the work of Russian journalists. However, things were not always like this. Around twenty years ago, Russia experienced...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
