The stereotype that Russian is an impossibly hard language comes from Russians themselves who don’t need to learn it and thus don’t really know anything about it. I try to hammer away at this ...

Students in the Siberian city of Irkutsk can now learn the Russian alphabet together with a hearty helping of the new political correctness, "The Siberian Times" reported on May 5. A pro-Kremlin group ...

They not only changed the political order and overthrew the tsar, but also introduced new spelling rules and purged the Russian alphabet of several letters. The idea of reforming the Russian language ...

On a Thursday evening, I walked to Makerere University to learn the basics of the Russian language. The tutor, Olga Andreevna ...

...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring A pro-Kremlin youth group has produced an alphabet for schools that teaches "love for the homeland" as well as literacy, it's been ...

Kazakhstan is to adopt a new alphabet, replacing the Russian Cyrillic script with the alphabet you are reading at the moment. This was announced in October by the Kazakh president, Nursultan ...