Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was “gobsmacked” by ...

On a Thursday evening, I walked to Makerere University to learn the basics of the Russian language. The tutor, Olga Andreevna ...

During the service at Almaty’s Ascension Cathedral, strains of Church Slavic rise from the choir. “Lord have mercy,” they sing in the proto-Russian language still used in the Orthodox Church. As the ...

During my sophomore year of college in 2010, I picked my major: Russian. I had been studying the language and was excited for the opportunity to read literature, learn about another part of the world ...

In the run-up to his invasion, Vladimir Putin tried to justify his predatory intent by saying Russia needed to protect Russian-speakers in cities like Odessa. His self-serving argument is now the butt ...

A third of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language. But Russia's invasion has led several people to distance themselves from the language. We're 60 days into Russia's assault on Ukraine. Much ...

The head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Tunisia, Yuri Zaitsev, noted that Tunisia is currently the only country in North Africa where Russian has the official status of the language ...

"Mr. Nobody Against Putin," a film made secretly by a teacher in Russia, shows the propaganda efforts in a country at war.

This is part of a weekly series introducing readers to individuals who are passionate about our Mid-Valley community. Learning a new language is hard, and Lola Burkovskaya, originally from Kyrgyzstan, ...

HELSINKI, August 16 (Itar-Tass) — Finnish President Sauli Niiniste takes lessons of the Russian language every day, regarding the knowledge of Russian as “a matter of politeness”. He said this in an ...

The number of Russian speakers in Central Asia has declined since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, mostly due to sociodemographic factors such as the migration of ethnic Russians and population ...