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 ...

On March 31, a Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed into a cliff in Crimea, killing 30 people. A week later, Reuters reported that among the dead was Lieutenant General Alexander Otroshchenko, ...

The complex language history of Russia and Ukraine long ago set the stage for today’s conflict between the two countries. In an impassioned speech to the Russian parliament in March 2014, Russia’s ...

LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, Svitlana Panova spoke her native Russian without giving it much thought. But now, she has lost her home to Russia twice — fleeing Crimea after Russia's ...

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 ...

A senior lecturer of Russian and Czech received an excellence in teaching award for expanding Russian and Slavic language ...

Russian is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, with over 100 million native speakers, and is considered a critical needs language by the U.S. government. W&M students have the ...

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.

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 ...

Woodburn School District is home to one of the nation's only public K-12 Russian language programs. But enrollment fell this year after schools switched to remote learning and two new private schools ...