Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the ...

EADaily, February 3rd, 2026. The Belarusian comedian, known for TNT TV channel projects, Irina Prikhodko admitted that she ...

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 ...

The first Russian language and culture center has opened in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. This was reported on January ...

In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming to extend the reach of Kremlin-friendly messaging in Central Asia. The initiative highlights the enduring ...

NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of establishing a unified national interdepartmental scientific and methodological center dedicated to promoting 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, ...

After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a lot of Ukrainians who would normally have used Russian as their first language started instead to speak only in Ukrainian. It was part of a ...

Mitchell Baughman will be one of the last students to graduate this spring from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in Russian. In an email last week, UNL spokesperson Leslie Reed ...

A teacher in Tashkent was fined 6.8 million soms ($534) for hitting a sixth-grade student who asked why she did not speak Russian during a Russian-language class. A video of the incident went viral, ...