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 ...

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 ...

ALMATY – Growing up in Esil, a predominantly Russian-speaking town in northern Kazakhstan, Aleksei Skalozubov didn’t feel the need to speak Kazakh, the country’s state language. The situation didn’t ...

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 ...

A new grant from the U.S. Russia Foundation will fund free online Russian language courses for Kansas high school students. Ani Kokobobo, a University of Kansas researcher, says the ongoing war in ...

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 ...

KYIV -- Intensified air attacks on the Ukrainian capital following a drone strike on the Kremlin that Russia blamed on Kyiv forced Iryna, Svitlana, and Olya to spend their Ukrainian-language ...