Ever since the conquest of most of the territory of Ukraine in the 18th century, the Russian Empire, followed by the Soviet Union, had tried to assimilate the Ukrainian nation and make it part of Russia through repression and genocidal...
Language was always a cornerstone of Ukraine’s national identity, along with Ukrainian aspirations for individual and national freedom reflected already in 17th-century democratic Cossack institutions: Read more on national identity...
Since 2014, Ukraine has had a state policy for the protection and promotion of the Ukrainian language, to address the problem of Russian-language domination in the country’s eastern regions and in virtual space. Russia has always...
Some trends in the publishing industry: Ukrainian is becoming the preferred language for publications; Ukraine is starting to see revenue from the export of its cultural offerings The Ukrainian Book Institute has researched publishing in...
Why quotas were needed First and foremost, quotas for broadcasting music were introduced to protect the Ukrainian language. The reason was simple — the Russian-language music audience amounts to 200 million worldwide, while the...
Please sign the letter to support free English-language media in Ukraine HERE OPEN LETTER calling on Ukraine not to jeopardize publications in EU languages We, the undersigned, took notice of the draft law on Ukrainian state language No...
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools is “’an act of ethnocide’ of the ethnic Russian people in Ukraine, thus denouncing in another...
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...
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...
