Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...
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.
Victor Yanukovych‘s Party of the Regions is pushing for a referendum on granting Russian official status as a national language, in addition to Ukrainian. Taras of Ukrainiana points out the ...
In Chernihiv, northeast of Kyiv, Ukrainian language lessons take place in one of the few intact rooms in the city’s public library, damaged earlier this year when the Russians pummeled the city with ...
(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their ...
KYIV, April 26 (Reuters) - On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Vlada Belozorenko, a Kyiv theatre director and public speaking coach who grew up speaking Russian, decided that all of her business would ...
BEREHOVE, Ukraine — Under the watchful eye of their teacher, a group of students in western Ukraine used a scalpel and forceps to dissect a pig's heart during a weekend biology class. The lesson was ...
(JTA) — For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover’s core text into Ukrainian started with the title. The haggadah — the book containing the Passover story — starts with an “h” sound in ...