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 ...

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian tanks crossed the Ukrainian border. Six months later, on Sept. 5, 18 million Russian schoolchildren ...

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 ...

During the service at Almaty’s Ascension Cathedral, strains of Church Slavic rise from the choir. “Lord have mercy,” they sing in the proto-Russian language still used in the Orthodox Church. As the ...

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 ...

Russia has officially launched a pilot program that teaches patriotic lessons to preschoolers. The program, 'Conversations about Important Things,' targets children from three to seven. It comes amid ...

Natasha Lance Rogoff's book, "Muppets in Moscow," is the story of bringing the Russian version of Sesame Street to television there. This took place in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

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 ...