Ukraine’s contested cultural ban strikes at the heart of Putin’s imperial strategy
Ukraine's cultural blockade of Russian art is more than wartime nationalism —it’s a frontline defense against Putin’s "Russian world" colonial ideology.
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Russian war crimes push cultural break but 30% of Ukrainians still tied to Russian culture, expert says
Despite documenting over 150,000 Russian war crimes, a significant minority of Ukrainians remains reluctant to cut cultural ties with Russia, creating potential vulnerabilities in Ukraine's decolonization efforts.
Ukraine rebukes Africa’s ECOWAS official, who repeated anti-Ukrainian propaganda at Sochi forum
Economic Community of West African States commissioner Abdel-Fatau Musah falsely claimed that Ukraine banned speaking Russian in the Donbas and committed genocide there.
Latvia wants to ban Russian and Belarusian citizens from teaching in schools
The National Alliance faction in Latvia's parliament has initiated a move to ban Russian and Belarusian citizens from teaching in the country's schools.
Russians are retraining Ukrainian language teachers to teach Russian in occupied territories of Ukraine
Russian courses aim to retrain teachers, particularly those who have qualifications in Ukrainian language and literature.
Kyiv City bans Russian-language entertainment in public places
At a meeting on 13 July, the Council’s deputies adopted a decision to ban the public use of…
Ukraine ceases to be a bilingual country, polls and speaking practice show
The Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine was nearly 37% in 2012, 26% in 2021, and declined sharply to 13-15%…
Why Ukraine can’t solve its language problem by adopting policies from Switzerland or France
Language policies have been a matter of contention – and sometimes confrontation – in Ukraine since the early…
More than one Ukrainian in four speaks Polish, new survey finds
A new survey finds that 28 percent of Ukrainians say they have some knowledge of Polish, yet another…
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…
Writer Andriy Liubka: O sancta simplicitas!
With just a few words, Olena Yeremeyeva, producer of Ukrainian series and films on 1 + 1 channel,…
Should Ukraine take over the Russian language? Scrutinizing Prof. Snyder’s arguments
The Russian language issue Of course, the Ukrainian variety of Russian is different from the varieties existing in…
Putin’s ‘Russian world’ continues to contract
Despite Vladimir Putin’s aggressive Russification program at home and his promotion of the Russian language abroad, the Kremlin…
Three telling poll results from Belarus
Polls in authoritarian countries like Belarus are hardly reliable given that many people there doubt that surveys are…
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…
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…
Ukraine and Hungary both claim victory in Ukrainian education language argument
Ukraine wanted to receive the expert conclusion of the Venice Commission first of all to neutralize the political…
Moscow can’t close Ukrainian language schools in Russia because there aren’t any
A major reason that Moscow has to struggle to find symmetrical responses to anything other countries do is…
‘Russian Security Agencies Said Increasing Recruitment of Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russia Disappearing from Radar Screen of Young Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
