Ukraine’s European heritage is in its language’s DNA
Throughout centuries, the history of the Ukrainian language was as turbulent as the history of Ukraine itself. Captured…
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Language protection: what Ukraine can learn from three European countries
Since gaining its independence in 1991, Ukraine keeps trying to revive the Ukrainian language in all areas of…
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…
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…
Ukrainian dissident Oleksa Tykhyy. How a teacher from Soviet Donetsk became “Public Enemy #1”
In his article “Reflections on my native Donetsk” (Думки про рідний донецький край, 1972), Oleksa Tykhyy wrote the…
Writer Andriy Liubka: O sancta simplicitas!
With just a few words, Olena Yeremeyeva, producer of Ukrainian series and films on 1 + 1 channel,…
Russian as a minority language in Ukraine vs Russian as Putin’s weapon: Is there a compromise?
Read also: Zelenskyy’s first Normandy and the illusion of progress How the murder of Artem Miroshnychenko illustrates the…
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.…
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…
Vitaly Portnikov: the Ukrainian language is Putin’s arch-enemy
Without their language, the Ukrainian nation is transformed into a folksy misinterpretation – “khokhly” (хохли)*, whose only talents…
Ukraine adopts law expanding scope of Ukrainian language
On 25 April, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted law #5670-d "on the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a…
Ukraine creates free online courses of Ukrainian language for foreigners
Learning Ukrainian online has become easier, now that the government is offering a free online course “SpeakUkrainian.” The…
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…
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…
Sorry, world, for being ourselves…
Forgive us, Ukrainians, for sending our sons and brothers to be wounded and killed in the war every…
Forgotten history: What tour guides at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra aren’t saying…
Immediately after the fire, Moscow “scholars” began rewriting the historical chronicle of the ancient monastery in full compliance…
Shevchenko Prize winner Emma Andiyevska: “If you want Ukraine to exist, learn Ukrainian!”
- Ms. Andiyevska, what was your reaction when you found out that you’d won the Shevchenko Prize for…
Language bill must be approved to stop aggression against Ukrainian, says writer
Yuriy Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and translator, believes that the attack on the Euromaidan activist is not the…
The Ukrainian language is gaining ground, official says
When it comes to increasing the use of the Ukrainian language in society, there were a few more…
Ukraine’s main challenge: to solve its identity crisis
Each time we do a review of any given year, we try to determine the number of successes,…