Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

Ukrainian belongs to the East Slavic language family, sharing roots with Russian and Belarusian. For English speakers, mastering this beautiful language presents unique challenges and opportunities.

The complex language history of Russia and Ukraine long ago set the stage for today’s conflict between the two countries. In an impassioned speech to the Russian parliament in March 2014, Russia’s ...

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 ...

Have you noticed that TV anchors, diplomats and – hold onto your blue and yellow flags – even American politicians on both sides of the aisle say "Kyiv" (pronounced "KEEV") and not "Kiev" (KEE-ev)? In ...

Zhanna Vorobets teaches reading and writing to third-graders at the Ukrainian School of Knowledge, which meets Saturday mornings. The school, opened in 1998 with 40 pupils, has 130 this year who are ...

Although NATO's official languages are English and French, the content on NATO's website has also been available in both Ukrainian and Russian since at least 2014. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

A gunman on July 19 shot and killed a former member of Ukraine's parliament known for campaigns to promote the Ukrainian language. Iryna Farion, 60, was shot in the head on a street in the western ...

When I say alien, I don’t mean I came here from another star system. However, I do come from a different country and culture and thus I am a stranger not familiar to Ukrainians – a foreigner. Follow ...

Democratic super PAC American Bridge launched a partially Ukrainian-language ad campaign hitting Republican figures for past comments on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The five-figure print ad buy ...

The ban on studying the Ukrainian language in schools on the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) is another manifestation of the genocidal policy of the terrorist country, Russia, according to the ...

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 ...