The Russian language is losing its expressiveness due to the abundance of parasitic words, jargonisms and borrowings, which are increasingly being used inappropriately and automatically. This was ...

EADaily, January 12th, 2026. The deputy of the Parliament of Uzbekistan Alisher Kadyrov proposed to ban the Russian language ...

Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the ...

An introductory language course that presents the fundamentals in all skill areas and assists students in developing basic skills necessary for understanding, speaking, reading, and writing the target ...

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 ...

The number of Russian speakers in Central Asia has declined since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, mostly due to sociodemographic factors such as the migration of ethnic Russians and population ...

A Tajik who grew up in Dushanbe but only recently returned after decades in Russia has noticed a change in the Tajik capital. Hardly anyone speaks Russian anymore. As Konstantin Parshin at ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Researchers have already taken note of dwindling Russian language skills in Finland, noting that this erosion could create ...

Latvia is not the only Baltic country struggling to integrate Russian-speakers. Alar Karis, Estonia’s president, recently ...

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 ...