Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Wikimedia Commonss Baltic countries have been important supporters ...

June 6 was declared International Russian language day by the United Nations in 2010 to coincide with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, considered the father of modern Russian literature. In terms of ...

The first Russian language and culture center has opened in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. This was reported on January ...

By Carly Brant for Eurasianet In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming ...

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Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the ...

A Russian member of parliament has said that he and his political party believed that Ukraine and its language had no right to exist. The comments were made by Alexei Didenko during a conference on ...

EADaily, . A former member of the VIA Gra group, Ukrainian singer Vera Brezhneva has once again changed her stage name. This ...

In Chernihiv, northeast of Kyiv, Ukrainian language lessons take place in one of the few intact rooms in the city’s public library, damaged earlier this year when the Russians pummeled the city with ...

Belarusians are experiencing a new wave of Russification as Moscow expands its economic, political and cultural dominance to overtake the identity of its neighbor. TALLINN, Estonia — When school ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.