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…
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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,…
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…
Russian occupiers making Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar ‘outcast’ languages
Since the 2014 Anschluss, Moscow has often tested out policies of repression on the Ukrainian peninsula that it…
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 Banking System on Brink of Collapse’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…