Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A boy holds a Russian flag in Tiraspol, Moldova, on Sept. 1, 2015. Udmurt scholar Albert Razin ended his life in front of the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! At his annual news conference on December 14, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a question about his policy on minority languages ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed on Dec. 3 an ammendment removing Russian from the list of languages protected ...

With President Vladimir Putin pushing his vision of Russia as a bastion of “traditional” national values, ethnic and sexual minorities have found themselves increasingly marginalized in a country ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) – Latvian voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occupiers, though the defeated referendum Saturday is ...

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 ...

RUSSIAN culture survives in a remote patch of northern China entombed in ice and snow. In the township of Enhe, birch trees, ...