Lithuanian Culture Minister Lukas Alsis called for taking into account the interests of national minorities and Ukrainians when reducing the use of the Russian language in government institutions.

China's new ethnic unity law is threatening to make the languages and culture of 55 different ethnic groups extinct.

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Intelligence chiefs from MI5 and GCHQ are looking for young Russian speakers as part of a new recruitment drive in to work ...

How sad should we be when a language dies? Consider the case—call it callous or simply tough-minded—for saying, “Not at all.” A language, when it comes down to it, is a means of communication. When ...

I was the wrong kind of American. One morning after returning to the CIA, I passed a tour group in our museum, clustered ...

Ukrainian attacks on fuel infrastructure and on online retailer Wildberries are disrupting middle-class Russians’ sense of normality. Moves to step up military conscription could push the system ...

VILNIUS - Lithuania's culture minister on Thursday called for a systematic approach to phasing Russian out of public administration as Vilnius moves to stop accepting written requests and complaints ...

From Israel and Russia to Germany and Japan, we can find nationalists laying claim to a state of perpetual victimhood to justify present-day chauvinism. This brand of “victimhood nationalism” is ...

The government is a shareholder, but it's not necessarily sitting there, as I understand it, in the boardroom dictating ...

Is there an inventory of the Jewish remains in Libya? Dr David Gerbi in the Tripoli Dar Bishi synagogue (with authorization ...