Language as enemy
It is amazing but true: language is what separates us. So say several Russian-speaking Ukrainians. And they say…
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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…
Broadcasting quotas in Ukraine
The quota system in Ukrainian broadcasting is a weapon against a cynical internal information war, where creeping Russification…
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…
Ukraine should shift from Cyrillic to Latin script, former Verkhovna Rada deputy says
To solidify its break from a Russia-dominated space, Ukraine should shift from the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian…
Education Minister Serhiy Kvit: “There can be no Ukraine without the Ukrainian language”
Radio Liberty’s Bozhena Antoniak: “Education and books are the two most important factors in shaping national identity.” A…
Ukrainian consumers have the right be served in Ukrainian — activist
For the past several years, Lviv native Sviatoslav Litynskyi, a programming instructor, has been defending the right of Ukrainian…
Switch to Ukrainian for protection against Russian occupation, Ukrainians urge compatriots
"Russian interests are where the Russian language is spoken. If we speak the same language, they will bring…
Russian occupiers cut classes and schools in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian
Despite Russian laws specifying that Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian are state languages in Crimea alongside Russian, the Russian…
Why and how we must support the Ukrainian language
The problem is not that in Odesa, for example, you hear more Russian on the streets than Ukrainian,…
The postcolonial syndrome in Ukraine
Political scientist Karolina Słowik interviews Mykola Riabchuk, Ukrainian literary critic, essayist and journalist, on his new book Ukraine:…
The young have chosen Ukrainian — Poroshenko
The Ukrainian language has been and will be the official language of Ukraine, and all attempts to use…
Russia’s actions in occupied Crimea show how Moscow plans to destroy non-Russian languages in Russia itself
Vladimir Putin has made much of the fact that Russia declared that there are to be three “state…
It is time to speak Ukrainian in Ukraine
The writer Olena Stepova wrote in Facebook that in the center of Luhansk she met a bus driver…
Language and Literacy day in Ukraine: a dictation of unity and a record
“The Ukrainian radio is 90 years old! The story of the Ukrainian radio is a wondrous epoch. Hundreds…
The Ukrainian language as a worldview marker
Every Tuesday, third-year philology student Yulia Haleta turns from a Kyiv-Mohyla Academy student into a professor. The young…
Kyivans now speaking Ukrainian, underlining Russia’s loss of Ukraine, Mirsky says
In 1991, Ukrainians separated themselves “not from Russia but from Moscow,” as shown by the continuing willingness of…