The Russian Supreme Court upholds a Kafkaesque ban on Navalny using prison slang.

War has a way of changing the language, and not necessarily for the better.

Moldova has passed a law labeling Romanian its national language amid suspected Moscow-fueled protests. 

Kyiv-Mohlya Academy has banned the Russian language inside the institution.

The State Duma began reviewing a new law that would restrict the use of foreign loan words in official Russian communications.

Annual rating of English language proficiency worldwide shows Russia holding steady, notwithstanding anti-Western propaganda and travel bans.

A translator with Russian roots ruminates on her past, and what it means to be a Russophile today.

...and you are likely to find a Tatar one beneath it. We dig into the sordid details.

Where we explore the very particular relationship that Russians have with their language.

What could be more appropriate than to take a trip with Chekhov across the Ukrainian steppe?

Ukraine has begun a "derussification" of street names, replacing them with names of important Ukrainians.

In recent months the Russian press corps has been honing its euphemistic language skills, wondering how to talk crap.