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 ...

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 ...

Most Ukrainians are fluent in Russian and Ukrainian because Russian culture was widespread during the days of the Soviet Union. However, researchers from LMU Munich, the University of Bath, and the ...

Uzbekistan’s Gen Z is tired of the Russian language’s privileged status in the country. According to government statistics, approximately 2.1 percent of the country’s 37.5 million people are ...

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 ...

The ongoing switch from Cyrillic to a Latin-based alphabet in Kazakhstan has been widely presented as a step toward modernization and global integration by Kazakh officials. However, in Russian media, ...

Adria Swiney, a May graduate with a degree in modern languages with a concentration in Russian language and literature, is serving as a teaching assistant for the Russian Summer Language Institute.