In brief: President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law removing Russian from minority language protections under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Ukraine, with parliamentary ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

On December 31st Latvian Radio 4 (LR4), one of the Baltic country’s main public radio channels, bid farewell to its listeners after nearly 25 years. It went silent not for lack of demand or because of ...

North Korea has mandated Russian as a foreign language for its elementary school children – a further sign of Moscow’s increasing ties with the hermit kingdom stemming from its invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. peace plan presented to Ukraine appears to have been translated from Russian. The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language, such as the third point of the 28-point ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. And yet, what made me a near Nabokov completist was not that his English was perfectly assimilated but rather ...

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a lot of Ukrainians who would normally have used Russian as their first language started instead to speak only in Ukrainian. It was part of a ...

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Despite the advantages of a larger recruitment base and defense industrial capacity, the Russian military has not been able to decisively defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) since Russia’s ...