Tag: Russia
New Immigrants May Not Require Russian
According to the independent Moscow Times, President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing foreign citizens and stateless individuals to apply for temporary residency...
Russia Accused of Suppressing Ukrainian
Human Rights Watch (HRW), the widely respected international monitoring organization, is claiming that the Russian occupying authorities in Eastern Ukraine have violated their human...
Russian Schools Begin to Offer Swahili and Amharic
In Russia's capital Moscow, three schools have introduced the teaching of either Swahili or Amharic as a second foreign language this fall.
According to Sputnik...
Activists warn Russian languages are disappearing faster than data suggests
Activists in Russia have warned that hundreds of rare languages spoken by Russia’s ethnic and indigenous minorities are disappearing at an alarming rate.
It is...
Russia Bans Use of Foreign Words
Last month, Russia’s Duma (lower legislative assembly) adopted a bill that forbids the use of foreign words in Russian, unless there is no commonly...
Russia Launches Project to Preserve Languages
The Federal Institute of Native Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation has announced an initiative to develop educational materials and revitalize indigenous...
Russia Criticizes Uzbek Language Policy
The Russian Foreign Ministry said this month that supporters of the Uzbekistan government’s plan to enforce the use of Uzbek in the civil service...
Scholar Self-Immolates Over Language Extinction
An academic activist, Albert Razin, died in Russia after setting himself on fire in a political protest about government policy surrounding his native Udmurt...
Russia Launches French TV
Russian state broadcaster RT is launching a French-language channel, months after being accused of...
EU Reacts to Russian Reporting
The European Union’s (EU's) foreign affairs department announced last month that it was launching a rapid-response team to counter what it considers biased Russian...
