The occupying authorities in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Oblast plan to cancel mandatory learning of the Ukrainian language in the new academic year. Source: Olena Shapurova, ...

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.

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 ...