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Language policy
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Russia’s war is speeding up the Ukrainization of Ukraine
Ever since the conquest of most of the territory of Ukraine in the 18th century, the Russian Empire,…
17/09/2022
Why Ukraine can’t solve its language problem by adopting policies from Switzerland or France
[editorial]What language policies could be a solution for Ukraine? Many westerners view Ukraine as a linguistically divided country…
07/02/2022
Ukrainian language slowly yet steadily displaces Russian in Ukraine
[editorial]On 9 November, Ukrainians celebrate the day of Ukrainian language and writing. It is celebrated since 1997, symbolically,…
09/11/2021
Post-Euromaidan gains for Ukrainian language challenged by creeping Russification and state indiffirence
[editorial]After the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, the Ukrainian language flowered amid what has been called a national awakening.…
08/12/2020
The rebirth of Ukrainian literature and publishing: famous contemporary authors and new policy for their support
Some trends in the publishing industry: Ukrainian is becoming the preferred language for publications; Ukraine is starting to…
10/01/2020
Russian as a minority language in Ukraine vs Russian as Putin’s weapon: Is there a compromise?
Read also: Zelenskyy’s first Normandy and the illusion of progress How the murder of Artem Miroshnychenko illustrates the…
17/12/2019
The language issue, high-profile killings, social cleavages: ex-SBU general on how Russian FSB plans to destabilize Ukraine
– Where would it be possible to destroy the country? How might this take place? How to counteract…
16/12/2019
Kyiv moves to restore pre-Soviet Ukrainian spellings, infuriating Moscow
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules…
24/08/2018
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…
15/04/2017
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…
05/03/2017
A short guide to the linguicide of the Ukrainian language | Infographics
During the XVII-XX ct, Ukraine was split up between various empires and states. The ruling regime of each of…
22/02/2017
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…
10/02/2017
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…
03/12/2016
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…
22/11/2016
Kivalov-Kolesnichenko Language Law: Kremlin’s Trojan horse in Ukraine
This law, passed with flagrant violations of Verkhovna Rada regulations, should be differently named, namely “On principles of…
09/11/2016
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…
28/10/2016
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…
13/10/2016
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…
22/09/2016
Political scientist: the war is due to Ukraine’s weak language policy in Crimea and Donbas
Stanislav Fedorchuk, political scientist and internally displaced person from Donetsk, believes that the war in Ukraine is a…
20/08/2016