TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

"Examining the language’s position in the digital environment is promising - it helps us gauge the overall digital support for the language," Nikita Gusev, acting rector of the Pushkin Institute said ...

Uzbekistan’s continuing reluctance to join the Eurasian Economic Union highlights the Central Asian nation’s preference to keep Russia at arm’s length. At the same time, deep economic ties – including ...

More than any previous Moscow ruler, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made knowledge and use of the Russian language central to his understanding of Russian identity, a core link between the ...

Some politicians are proposing a gradual shift away from Russian-language instruction in schools serving the country’s ...