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minority languages
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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…
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…
Fewer Russians but more Russian speakers: The changing face of Russia
The number and percentage of ethnic Russians in Astrakhan has been declining two to three percent every decade,…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
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…
Moscow returning to tsarist Russification policies, Chuvash activist says
The reduction in the role of non-Russian languages in Russia and their being driven out of many public…
Russia’s actions in occupied Crimea show how Moscow plans to destroy non-Russian languages in Russia itself
Vladimir Putin has made much of the fact that Russia declared that there are to be three “state…
Putin launches broad new attack against non-Russian languages
Staunton, May 20 – Vladimir Putin wants to make the number of hours of Russian-language instruction in Russian…