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 ...

Twenty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia retains significant political and economic clout in Central Asia. Culturally speaking, however, Russian influence is slipping at an alarming rate ...

I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished. The writer Paul Tough and his son Max.Credit...Gueorgui Pinkhassov for The ...

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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 ...

This Day was set by the decision of the UN Department of Public Information in 2010. Its celebration, along with the days of the other official UN languages, was welcomed by the UNGA in 2017 – the ...

President Islam Karimov's administration spent much of the post-Soviet era trying to insulate Uzbekistan against Russia's hegemonic influence. For example, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the ...

This is part of a weekly series introducing readers to individuals who are passionate about our Mid-Valley community. Learning a new language is hard, and Lola Burkovskaya, originally from Kyrgyzstan, ...

The scholarship covers bachelors to advanced training with no entrance exams. Selection is based on academic records and ...

A good Russian accent, such as the one Viggo Mortensen uses as Nikolai Luzhov in 2007’s “Eastern Promises,” brings an air of authenticity and drama to a performance. A bad one, however, like Arnold ...

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 — ...