Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

"The Russian language is respected here, and there is a desire for it to be taught at different levels: from elementary school to higher educational institutions," Alexey Saltykov noted NAIROBI, ...

This is part of a weekly series introducing readers to individuals who are passionate about our Mid-Valley community. Learning a new language is hard, and Lola Burkovskaya, originally from Kyrgyzstan, ...