On March 31, a Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed into a cliff in Crimea, killing 30 people. A week later, Reuters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia has not only killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians and ruined much of the country's infrastructure since the start of the ...

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 ...

Russia has spent the last several years aggressively advocating for the rights of Russian minorities abroad, and in particular for the “protection” of the Russian language. Whenever a country takes ...

The FINANCIAL — Russian has started becoming popular again, ever since the new government promised to restore economic, cultural and political relations with its previously-hostile neighbour. From the ...

In Chernihiv, northeast of Kyiv, Ukrainian language lessons take place in one of the few intact rooms in the city’s public library, damaged earlier this year when the Russians pummeled the city with ...

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 ...

TALLINN, Estonia — 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 to ...

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 ...

Russia will help Ukraine implement its new language law, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said KIEV, August 29 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia will help Ukraine implement its new language law, ...