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.

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.

EADaily, June 28th, 2026. The granddaughter of the legendary Soviet and Latvian composer Raymond Pauls, Annamaria Paula, ...

The status of Russian remains deeply contentious in Moldova – and both Moscow and Moldova’s politicians have shown their willingness to exacerbate divisions by playing the language card. A look into ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from LMU, the University of Bath, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have analyzed changes in the use of language on social media in Ukraine before ...

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Russian took fifth place among 12 leading languages in the world in terms of the combination of such parameters as its role in both daily and scientific communication, ...

Without exaggerating, 2021 was the year of the Russian language in relations between Central Asia and Russia. No other issue seemed to so consistently top bilateral diplomatic relations as much as the ...

While Russian language and culture dominated much of life in Soviet Ukraine, some Ukrainian artists continued to speak out despite the personal risk it posed to them, believing in a future where their ...