Ukrainian writer & publisher: Language is the most important marker of national identity
By order of Moscow tsar Mikhail I, all copies of the Instructive Gospels by Kyryl Stavrovetsky were destroyed…
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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…
Ukrainian nation disappearing in Russia, Kyiv ethnographer says
The once large Ukrainian nation within the borders of what is now the Russian Federation is rapidly disappearing,…
Ukraine’s new education law unleashes international storm over minority language status
On 5 September 2017, Ukraine’s Parliament passed a new education law called to advance the much-needed education reform.…
How Kremlin’s “minority rights” defenders are supporting Russian expansionism in Ukraine
Moscow relies on endlessly inventive rhetoric when it is a question of defaming its real or imaginary enemies or exonerating…
Language policy in Ukraine and the experience of Finland and Israel
Ivan Dziuba in a recent interview recalled how, during the “anti-Maidan” demonstrations in Donetsk, local women carried 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…
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…
Russification through the church
A solemn evening program marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation was held in Uzhhorod recently. In 1517,…
The ugly things Moscow might do if Ukraine is consigned to a Russian sphere of influence
All too many people in the West are casually talking about recognizing Ukraine as lying within a Russian…
“Rebellious pagan” Ukrainian poet Antonych receives English translation
There are some old photographs which seem to preserve the subject in the amber light of a previous…
Language as enemy
It is amazing but true: language is what separates us. So say several Russian-speaking Ukrainians. And they say…
Historian Martyniuk: Ukrainian homes were massively occupied by Russian settlers
– There were thousands and thousands of empty houses that had once belonged to Ukrainian families. Moscow’s strategy…
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…
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…
Moscow deliberately undercounting ethnic Ukrainians in Russia, Kyiv official says
Russian officials from Vladimir Putin on down have routinely complained that the Ukrainian authorities discriminate against ethnic Russians…
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 analyst: War in Ukraine – direct result of Russia’s turn to fascism
Many people around the world are not only horrified by the Russian invasion of Ukraine but surprised that…
