Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

First graders attend a ceremony to mark the start of the school year in Kiev, Ukraine September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich By Alessandra Prentice KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's neighbors have a right ...

Discussing the topic of stopping Nazi propaganda in Ukraine, Nikolai Platoshkin noted that Donald Trump’s plan does not ...

Language has long been one of the key battlegrounds in the struggle to determine Ukraine's post-Soviet identity. Yehor Huskov has become an unlikely frontline soldier. The 33-year-old was born in ...

MOSCOW – Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a language law that seeks to increase the use of Ukrainian in a country where Russian is also widely used. The Supreme Rada on Thursday voted overwhelmingly ...

ODESA – When Russia invaded on Feb. 24, it immediately triggered a surge of patriotism in Ukraine that included a push for people to make more use of the nation’s official language: Ukrainian. Signs ...

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was "gobsmacked" by ...

CORRECTS para 4 to read Sea of Azov sted Black Sea Galyna Lekunova, a veterinarian in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, was left fuming by a new law in January mandating the use of Ukrainian in ...

LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, Svitlana Panova spoke her native Russian without giving it much thought. But now, she has lost her home to Russia twice — fleeing Crimea after Russia's ...

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed on Dec. 3 an ammendment removing Russian from the list of languages ...

(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their ...