British intelligence: Russia moves to erase Ukrainian language in occupied schools
Kremlin pushes a sweeping Russification drive targeting Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts from September 2025.
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Russia planned Russification of Ukrainian children after swift victory—now, it uses them to pressure Kyiv into concessions
Yale reports Russia has stolen 35,000 Ukrainian kids and forced them to sing the Russian anthem under a threat to their parents.
Inside occupied Crimea: torture, disappearances, and total suppression of dissent
A Freedom House report sheds light on systematic abuses in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.
UK intel: Putin’s decree pressures Ukrainians to accept Russian passports or leave occupied areas
This move is part of ongoing Russian efforts to enforce Russification policies in these areas, aiming to eliminate Ukrainian culture, identity, and statehood.
Ukrainians forced to obtain Russian passports won’t face legal consequences, says Ukraine’s Justice Ministry
The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice has assured that citizens coerced into obtaining Russian passports in occupied territories will not be held accountable. This decision aims to protect those who faced threats of repression from the occupying authorities.
British Defense Ministry: Russia extends ‘Russification’ in occupied Ukraine through education, personnel training
Moscow is launching a master's program to train personnel for government roles in the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson & Zaporizhzhia oblasts, likely aimed at creating a new administrative 'elite.'
UK intel: Russia threatens to deport Ukrainians without Russian passports from occupied areas
Russia forcing Ukrainian residents in occupied areas to accept Russian citizenship or face deportation, per UK intelligence.
Kremlin’s Russification campaign in Ukraine fuels nationalism and xenophobia within Russia – ISW
The Kremlin’s campaign of “Russification” in Ukraine is burning back into Russia itself as it continues to empower…
Russian occupiers remove Ukrainian from school curriculum in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
The Russian occupation authorities intend to cancel the compulsory Ukrainian language curriculum in the temporarily occupied territories of…
How schoolchildren in Russian-occupied Ukraine are taught to hate their homeland
“All the supporters of Ukraine are traitors. If Ukraine remains independent, evil will invade it.” Russian authorities in…
Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous
Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…
Moscow complains about campaign against Russian speakers in Ukraine while waging a far more sweeping one against Ukrainian speakers in Russia, Yatsenyuk says
But in making that claim, Lavrov and those who follow him ignore the fact that in the Russian…
Kremlin simultaneously seeking to destroy republics and nations on which they rest, Shro says
In a Guildhall commentary, he suggests that these two processes, in turn, are connected with “the strengthening of…
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…
The brutal Russification of Ukrainian Kuban: from Zaporizhian Sich to the Kuban Cossack Host
The new land of the Ukrainian Cossacks Thousands of Ukrainian Cossacks and their families moved to the Kuban…
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…
Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says
Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…
Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says
Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by…
46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their homeland
Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights…
Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea
Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea…