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Latvia May Restrict Russian
Latvia, a former member of the Soviet Union that shares a border with Russia, could move to restrict the Russian language in workplaces, according to the country’s deputy prime minister.
Jānis Bordāns, who also serves...
Estonia Moves to End Russian-Medium Schools
Estonian member of parliament Urmas Reinsalu of the Isamaa party recently announced that the coalition government had reached an agreement that the transition to Estonian-language education at all levels must be set out in...
Russian and French Media Blocked
Last month, Russia blocked access to the websites of Radio France Internationale and the Russian-language service of The Moscow Times in the latest restrictions on media since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Moscow Times, whose English-language...
Russian Newspaper Defiantly Publishes in Ukrainian
Russian newspaper editor, Dmitry Muratov who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, is publishing Friday's edition in Ukrainian as a show of solidarity against Putin's invasion. The editor-in-chief of Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta spoke defiantly...
What Does It Mean to Ask ‘How Does Ukrainian Compare with Russian?’
To ask “How does Ukrainian compare to Russian?” is to admit that you’ve heard of Russian but didn’t realize that Ukrainian was even a language. It is not your own fault, it’s a consequence...
Court Rejects Special Status for Russian in Moldova
Last month, Moldova’s constitutional court rejected a law that would have given special status to the Russian language (Language Magazine, January 2021). The law was passed last year by the pro-Russian parliament previously led...
Moldova to Relax Restrictions on Russian
Andrew Warner reports on moves to bolster the status of the Russian language in Moldova
Parliament of Moldova in Chisinau.
Chisinau, Moldova.
The outgoing president of Moldova, Igor Dodon is expected to sign a bill to...
Russian Set Backs in Ukraine, Armenia
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has signed into law a controversial bill that makes Ukrainian the required language of instruction in state secondary schools (from fifth grade on). The bill was passed despite criticism, particularly...
Ukrainian President-Elect Unlikely to Lift Russian Status
After actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky's landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential elections, his campaign spokesperson, Dmytro Razumkov, said that the only official language in Ukraine is Ukrainian, according to the news outlet, Ukrainian Pravda....
Russian Wrangles with Ukrainian
More than 60% of Ukrainian citizens want the Ukrainian language to be the only official state language in the country, according to the results of a new poll released at the end of last...
