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.

The number of Russian speakers in Central Asia has declined since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, mostly due to sociodemographic factors such as the migration of ethnic Russians and population ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — 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 ...

Tarlan Baghirov, a 48-year-old barber in Baku, recently went on a bus tour with his family to the northern city of Guba. Their guide was an ethnic Russian Bakuvian, and she spoke only Russian to the ...

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Without exaggerating, 2021 was the year of the Russian language in relations between Central Asia and Russia. No other issue seemed to so consistently top bilateral diplomatic relations as much as the ...

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 ...

EADaily, March 15th, 2026. Lviv children easily learn Russian from visitors and begin to speak it. This is because the ...

Researchers from the HSE University Centre for Language and Brain have created and standardized a new test battery for diagnosing language disorders in people with brain damage. The test is the first ...

Many Ukraine citizens speak Russian as their first language. Volunteer organizations are helping them improve their Ukrainian and abandon “the occupiers’ language.” By Erika Solomon LVIV, Ukraine — ...