Ex-Minister of Culture of Latvia, talks about the successes and challenges in integrating the Russian-speaking community in Latvian society

Sarmīte Ēlerte, ex-Minister of Culture of Latvia, talks about the successes and challenges in integrating the Russian-speaking community in Latvian society

Revanchist ambitions in post-Soviet countries and the intent to retain Muslim peoples within its orbit fuel ethnic and religious tensions in Russia

A profound reboot of Ukraine’s socio-economic system is the only way to transform it from an uncompetitive Soviet fragment to a modern dynamic economy

Two seemingly disjointed reports came one after another: swallows’ nests were intentionally destroyed in an amusement centre and one’s of Europe’s oldest chestnut trees was cut down in downtown Kyiv. What causes such offences and why the perpetrators are not likely to be punished?

De-Russification is crucial to a split with the Soviet past

A social movement organized through Facebook encourages businesses to respect Ukrainian-speaking consumers and use Ukrainian when they operate in Ukraine

Over the past twenty years, everyone has begun to get used to thinking that they could all be identical citizens of this country. That peaceful co-existence of different languages was possible. We have waited a long time for the civilized times to come. Now, the difference once again has a chance to grow visible.

The status of Russian becomes the most acute problem in countries where Russian-speaking communities are large both in absolute and relative terms.

Seventy-five per cent of Latvian citizens rejected the initiative to grant Russian the status of a state language at a recent referendum, but this is unlikely to stop the politicisation of the “Russian issue” in this post-imperial territory

In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians were killed and russified in Eastern Slobozhanshchyna* and the North Caucasus

The Russian historian speaks about how myths about the Russian Empire and its rulers are perpetuated and invented on a dramatic scale

In the past two decades, the number of people who identify themselves as Ukrainians and their share in Russia’s population has dropped in half.

The media have recently been overwhelmed with messages signaling constricted use of the Ukrainian language

The self-proclaimed republic is preparing for its fifth presidential election. Is there a replacement for Igor Smirnov?

Russian politician and historian Yurii Afanasiev talks about the Russian System and the pressure it exerts on Ukraine

The last mass deportation of Ukrainians was carried out 60 years ago to satisfy Moscow's interests

Only resisting nations were able to avoid the negative consequences of russification

Imposing the Russian language is only one aspect of the Russian lifestyle exported to Ukraine

The conflict between pro-Russian and Ukrainian radicals on May 9 was quite foreseeable but no less scandalous

Party of the Regions is now the main funnel for money from the Russian budget—and some local Ukrainian ones—in support of pro-Russian activities

Out-and-out Ukrainophobia is being promoted in Ukraine under the guise of fighting xenophobia

Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine, talks about raider attacks on churches belonging to the Kyiv Patriarchate and the delusion of a “Russian world”

Did Ukrainian merchants in the Hetman state stand in anyone’s way?

Whether cities of Ukraine become more Ukrainian has a direct impact on what Ukraine itself will be like