June 6 was declared International Russian language day by the United Nations in 2010 to coincide with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, considered the father of modern Russian literature. In terms of ...

The turning point for Russian in Uzbekistan arrived in 1995. It was in that year that the late President Islam Karimov made Uzbek the country’s sole official language in an implicit effort to peel ...

Tarlan Baghirov, a 48-year-old barber in Baku, recently went on a bus tour with his family to the northern city of Guba. Their guide was an ethnic Russian Bakuvian, and she spoke only Russian to the ...