(Bloomberg) -- Larysa has lived in Estonia most of her life, but struggles with the language. One of the Baltic nation’s nearly 400,000 native Russian speakers, she taught at a kindergarten catering ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! At his annual news conference on December 14, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a question about his policy on minority languages ...
With President Vladimir Putin pushing his vision of Russia as a bastion of “traditional” national values, ethnic and sexual minorities have found themselves increasingly marginalized in a country ...
June 6 was declared International Russian language day by the United Nations in 2010 to coincide with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, considered the father of modern Russian literature. In terms of ...
Russia’s ethnic minorities disproportionately die in the war in Ukraine In the nearly two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, 300,000 Russian soldiers have died or been wounded, many of them ...
UN human rights experts highlighted the fact that the legislation introduces "restrictive and potentially discriminatory measures affecting the rights of ethnic and linguistic minorities in education" ...