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 policies have been a matter of contention – and sometimes confrontation – in Ukraine since the early years of independence, due to both the dissimilar preferences of domestic political actors and the interference of...
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...
Read also: Zelenskyy’s first Normandy and the illusion of progress How the murder of Artem Miroshnychenko illustrates the language issue in Ukraine The recent murder of Artem Miroshnychenko in the Donbas town of Bakhmut provoked a...
– Where would it be possible to destroy the country? How might this take place? How to counteract Russian tactics? – Russia needs a weak Ukraine, so the Russian special services are working hard and will continue exacerbating...
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules that will restore Ukrainian spellings to what they were in 1919 before the Soviet regime...
The Euromonitor group, using UN and national data sets, reports that the number of people using Russian in the post-Soviet states has declined by ten percent or more since 1994, a decline that reflects the re-orientation of these nations...
In 1900, one in every seven people on earth spoke Russian; now only one in 50 does, a decline that is mirrored within Russia itself, according to Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, who says that “in a number of...
In October 2022, nearly two weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles...
