June 6 was declared International Russian language day by the United Nations in 2010 to coincide with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, considered the father of modern Russian literature. In terms of ...

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 ...

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Tarlan Baghirov, a 48-year-old barber in Baku, recently went on a bus tour with his family to the northern city of Guba. Their guide was an ethnic Russian Bakuvian, and she spoke only Russian to the ...