Schoolchildren and university students across Russia marked the start of the new school year on Monday in a tradition known ...

Many Ukraine citizens speak Russian as their first language. Volunteer organizations are helping them improve their Ukrainian and abandon “the occupiers’ language.” By Erika Solomon LVIV, Ukraine — ...

A third of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language. But Russia's invasion has led several people to distance themselves from the language. We're 60 days into Russia's assault on Ukraine. Much ...

In an online post on the tiny Turkmen corner of TikTok earlier this month, a user introducing herself as a female singer complained of being language-shamed during an interview for a gig at a ...

A teacher in Tashkent was fined 6.8 million soms ($534) for hitting a sixth-grade student who asked why she did not speak Russian during a Russian-language class. A video of the incident went viral, ...

Interest in Hindi is surging in Russia, three decades after the Soviet Union's collapse. The Russian government is expanding ...

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 gap between the Putin regime and the expectations and attitudes of the Russian middle class is widened by a deep generational–perhaps even existential–divide.” — American Enterprise Institute ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets including ...