The Kyiv metro station of The Friendship of Peoples will be renamed to Zvirynetska, which is the historical name of the place meaning menagerie. Also, Tolstoy square will be renamed the square of Ukrainian Heroes according to the public...
Current situation with Ukrainian: spoken at home but still often unpopular in public Although the situation has improved since 1991, the majority of Ukrainian cities and business circles are still Russian-language dominated – a...
The bilingual Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan, who writes exclusively in Ukrainian, says that Russia “for the first time in its history has lost the monopoly on its own language,” a development that many in Russia find hard to...
In an article entitled “Incompetence or Betrayal? Gagauzia Learns to De-Russify from Tatarstan,” Ivan Shilov calls attention to and expresses outrage over the latest effort of the Kazan Tatars to provide leadership for fellow...
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...
