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 ...

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 ...

IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...

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 ...

Moscow has long claimed that Donbas “belongs” to Russia because many there speak Russian — a false narrative echoed even by U ...