Diaspora Youths Sold on Russian, but not Russia
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Lena Smirnova – Dec. 14, 2012) Members of the diaspora who gathered in Moscow on Thursday for the Forum of Russian Compatriots welcomed President Vladimir Putin’s...
View ArticlePutin’s Nationality Policy Won’t Work as He Intends
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, February 20, 2013 – http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/02/window-on-eurasia-putins-nationality.html) Both the five specific planks of his nationality...
View ArticleRussia’s indigenous languages at risk of dying out
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – March 17, 2013) Around 250 languages are spoken in Russia, including Russian, which is spoken by some 150 million people. Russian, along with several...
View Article136 National Languages Now at Risk in Russia, UNESCO Says
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, March 22, 2013 – http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/03/window-on-eurasia-136-national.html) Some 136 national languages of the Russian Federation are...
View ArticleRussian Language Second Most Popular on the Internet
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – March 25, 2013) Russian became the second most frequently used language on the Internet in 2013, having passed Germany by a narrow margin, according to a report by...
View ArticleFacilitating Learning Russian
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 Subject: Facilitating Learning Russian From: Ron Pope <ron42.pope@gmail.com> The current (July 29) issue of Time magazine has an article entitled “The Power of the...
View ArticleRussia’s Soft-Power Agency Is Allocated More Funds.
(RIA Novosti- MOSCOW, July 24, 2013) Russia has allocated significant spending power to Rossotrudnichestvo, Moscow’s vehicle for promoting its influence abroad, as part of an apparent drive to improve...
View ArticleIs Russian as difficult to learn as they say?
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexandra Kulikova, special to RBTH – September 17, 2013) Renowned polyglot, interpreter, psycholinguist and TV host Dmitry Petrov talks about the incentives...
View ArticleRoofs and bottle caps: Deciphering Russian slang
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexey Mikheev, special to RBTH – September 19, 2013) Matryoshka, kolhkoz, sputnik, perestroikaall of these original and untranslatable words have been...
View ArticleOver Half of Ukrainians Oppose Russian as State Language – Poll
(RIA Novosti – KIEV, October 16, 2013) More than a half of Ukrainians are against the idea of making Russian the country’s second state language, according to a survey released by an independent...
View ArticleRIA Novosti: Bribery, Arrests Among Language Topics in Textbook for Migrants
MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) “Why are you arresting me?” “Isn’t it just easier to give money to the policeman?” “What do you do if the police beat you?” Practice conversations in a special...
View ArticleBishop: ethnic Russians discriminated against in south Russia
MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax) – A senior Russian Orthodox bishop has claimed that Russian speakers “often suffer ethnic and religious discrimination” in regions in Russia’s North Caucasus where they are in...
View ArticleInterfax: Most migrants come to Russia in visa-free travel regime, many don’t...
MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) – A third of migrant workers do not speak Russian, Federal Migration Service head Konstantin Romodanovsky said. “We are witnessing a surge in the arrivals of migrants from CIS...
View ArticleRIA Novosti: Russian Language Losing Popularity Abroad – Official
MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti) The number of Russian speakers worldwide has declined by about 120 million people in the past 20 years, a senior Russian government official said Friday. Measures to...
View ArticleTranslation challenges the brightest minds
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Phoebe Taplin, special to RBTH – January 14, 2014) Top translators of Tolstoy and Pelevin talk to RBTH about misunderstandings, cultural differences and how not...
View ArticleTen more well-known Russian words
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexey Mikheev, special to RBTH – February 20, 2014) Following the publication of my earlier piece “The 10 most well-known Russian words”, readers have...
View ArticleThe 10 most well-known Russian words
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexey Mikheev, special to RBTH – January 30, 2014) Words like vodka and Kalashnikov are know around the world. But how many people realize that they come from...
View ArticleUkraine abolishes law on languages of minorities, including Russian
(Interfax – February 23, 2014) Ukraine’s Verkhovna has abolished the law on the foundations of the state language policy adopted on July 3, 2012, by 232 out of 334 votes. In July 2012 Verkhovna Rada...
View ArticleUkraine PM says authorities against abolishing language law
DONETSK. April 11 (Interfax) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said that the country’s new authorities have no plans to abolish the July 3, 2012 law that regulates Ukraine’s language...
View ArticleRIA Novosti: Kiev Regime Backs Up on Russian Language Ban
KIEV, April 17 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian authorities are open to discussing granting Russian the status of an official language in the country’s southeastern regions, the acting head of the ruling...
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