Is it Ukraine’s fault that its ethnic minorities do not know Ukrainian?
Ukraine is often blamed for the fact that the Hungarian minority in Zakarpattia does not know the state…
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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.…
Ukrainians turning away from Russia not only politically but culturally
To no one’s surprise, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine has alienated Ukrainians politically from the former imperial center; but…
Prominent Ukrainians appeal to Ukraine’s parliament to pass amended language law
Some eighty prominent political and cultural leaders in Ukraine have signed an appeal to the Verkhovana Rada (Parliament)…
Moscow worried Russian ‘ceasing to be language of majority’ in Ukraine, Shchetkina says
The Kremlin isn’t pleased that the number of Ukrainians who use Russian is declining, but it if far…
Russian-speakers having problems with Ukrainian language more myth than reality, poll reveals
Russian politicians and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine love the myth that the Ukrainian language is a big problem…
Professor Michael Moser: Ukrainians should respect their language and culture
Professor Moser talks about the current situation of Ukrainian studies, disciplines and centers in the West and East.…
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…
Ukrainians re-discover their own language
The extensive free course of Ukrainian teaches basic vocabulary as well as working Ukrainian for those who need…
Russia’s war against the Ukrainian language
The books confiscated from the Ukrainian Library will probably be taken to another location, which won’t be called…
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…
Ukrainian politician: If we won’t speak Ukrainian, we will forever remain slaves of Russia
If the French were to listen to English music all day, Turkish people to Arabic songs, if Poles…
“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…
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…
Ukrainian becoming de facto the language of Ukraine, Viatrovych says
Kyiv’s announcement that railway stations in Ukraine within three months will have signs in Ukrainian and English but…
Political scientist: the war is due to Ukraine’s weak language policy in Crimea and Donbas
Stanislav Fedorchuk, political scientist and internally displaced person from Donetsk, believes that the war in Ukraine is a…
Building the Ukrainian nation
The Russian threat hanging over Ukraine has fostered a stronger sense of patriotism in our country. Issues related…