Russia has spent the last several years aggressively advocating for the rights of Russian minorities abroad, and in particular for the “protection” of the Russian language. Whenever a country takes ...

A new Russian law regulating public signage may appear to be a minor administrative change. But in practice, the move will further marginalize Russia’s Indigenous languages by shutting them out of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia has not only killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians and ruined much of the country's infrastructure since the start of the ...

The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved in its third and final reading a controversial bill that would allow the government to regulate the basic pillars of minority ...

According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Russophobes,” “aggressive nationalists” and certain countries (nod toward Ukraine and the Baltic states) are waging a “war” on the Russian language.

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 ...

TALLINN, Estonia — 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 to ...

The top ten of Russia’s rarest languages also includes the Yuit language, spoken by four people MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. The Yugh language, spoken by only one person in Russia, was named the country’s ...

There are, at our best estimate, 7,000 languages in use across the world. That may sound like a linguistic ecosystem in rude ...