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.

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

Beyond the Kremlin propaganda, it is true that a 2019 law was passed in Kyiv that made Ukrainian a mandatory language in the public sphere. Yet the position of the Russian language in everyday ...

Can you think of a word in English that can’t fully be translated into another language? We know that Inuit people have several different words for “snow” because it is prevalent and each word means a ...