Services in Ukrainian by default: new phase of language law sparks debate
Current situation with Ukrainian: spoken at home but still often unpopular in public Although the situation has improved…
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Post-Euromaidan gains for Ukrainian language challenged by creeping Russification and state indiffirence
Since 2014, Ukraine has had a state policy for the protection and promotion of the Ukrainian language, to…
Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict reaches back to the times when Ukraine emerged on the world map. In fact, it…
Ukraine and Hungary move to settle differences over national minority legislation
Kyiv and Budapest have initiated an effort to resolve their differences over the impact of Ukrainian language and…
Explosion of new Ukrainian music after introduction of protectionist language quotas
Why quotas were needed First and foremost, quotas for broadcasting music were introduced to protect the Ukrainian language.…
Broad coalition of non-Russians launch Internet petition drive against Putin’s language policies
Representatives of a significant cross-section of non-Russian nations now within the borders of the Russian Federation have launched…
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…
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…
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…
‘Enemy of the people’ is a Russian — not an American — term
An enormous and completely justified effort is now going to determine how Moscow influenced the US elections last…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Warning to Kremlin: Its non-Russians likely to become the Irish of the 21st century
Russian officials have long operated on the assumption that if they can force non-Russians in their country to…
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…
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…
Russia ‘for first time in its history’ has lost its monopoly on the Russian language, Zhadan says
The bilingual Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan, who writes exclusively in Ukrainian, says that Russia “for the first time…