Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life.

On March 31, a Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed into a cliff in Crimea, killing 30 people. A week later, Reuters ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

A central theme of Kremlin propaganda justifying the Ukraine invasion is the myth of Russians and the Russian language being persecuted in Ukraine. Yet at the same time, in Russia itself, Moscow’s ...

Protesters gather in front of the main governmental building secured by a police unit to protest usage of Russian language in Ukrainian TV in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 1, 2022 (NurPhoto by Dominika Zarzycka ...

NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of establishing a unified national interdepartmental scientific and methodological center dedicated to promoting the ...

Where’s the line between diversity and exoticism? Between representation and plain cultural appropriation? Back when I was still a journalist in Moscow, I once found myself at the center of a social ...

The Department of German and Russian Studies explores the interconnections between history, society, culture, and language within German- and Russian- speaking countries. The department offers a ...

"Examining the language’s position in the digital environment is promising - it helps us gauge the overall digital support for the language," Nikita Gusev, acting rector of the Pushkin Institute said ...

In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming to extend the reach of Kremlin-friendly messaging in Central Asia. The initiative highlights the enduring ...