But in Russophone Eastern and Southern Ukraine, Lenin is still respected by many, despite Communism’s obsolescence even there. So, as he fell, the reactions ranged from ecstasy to outrage.

Amidst Russia’s war on Ukraine, administrators, staff and students in Yale’s Slavic Languages and Literatures Department cope with learning and teaching Russophone culture. Miranda Wollen 11:56 pm, ...

One by one, Russia is trying to chip off the predominantly Russophone southeastern parts of Ukraine either through direct annexation, as in the case of Crimea, or by setting up puppet regimes akin ...

When political crises erupt in Ukraine, the fault line traditionally divides the Europe-oriented west from the pro-Russian industrial east. This time, it's not so cut-and-dried.

The undergraduate degree in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies provides unique insight into an important region for global culture, business and arts. Our students develop proficiency in ...

It would be a militarily difficult operation and Russophone populations in Kharkiv, Odesa, and Mariupol have proven much more loyal to Kyiv than the Kremlin expected.

In Moldova, both Romanian and the official language, Russian are crucial tools for communication — particularly for the local media. Global Voices interviewed Gala Vasilieva, the editor-in-chief of ...

LGBTQ activists in the Russophone world face obstacles that many in the Anglophone world do not, but that means they also find ways to survive that defy the imagination. One way queer Russian speakers ...

Last week, Israel-based LJ user avva asked his Russophone readers - some of whom are eligible to vote in the upcoming U.S. election - whether they supported Barack Obama or John McCain, and for what ...

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Voloshin was a frequent contributor to the leading Russophone émigré newspaper in the United States, the New York–based New Russian Word (Novoe russkoe slovo), acting ...

In 2008, Russia and Greece marked the 180th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. This modest number could lead to confusion, however, as the historical, ...

The next tragic story concerning the presence of Russians in Greece is linked to the events of the First World War, the Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Civil War in Russia. In the summer of 1916, ...