Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life.

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When asked which language they speak at home, 12% of Ukrainians said they speak only Russian, while 59% said they speak only ...

KHARKIV, Ukraine — In Kharkiv, a historically Russian-speaking city in eastern Ukraine, just 25 miles from the Russian border, Ukrainian classes are in high demand. Waiters, hairdressers and ...

EADaily, March 15th, 2026. Lviv children easily learn Russian from visitors and begin to speak it. This is because the ...

Its participants "will discuss topical issues of preserving, strengthening, and developing of the Russian-speaking space and tools to promote and support the Russian language across the globe, ...

A central theme of Kremlin propaganda justifying the Ukraine invasion is the myth of Russians and the Russian language being persecuted in Ukraine. Yet at the same time, in Russia itself, Moscow’s ...

EADaily, March 19th, 2026. In Uzbekistan, they come to the conclusion that the Russian language greatly simplifies life.