On how changing stress or a few letters can make all the difference.

Women discuss their decisions to adopt a "matronymic," honoring their mothers, rather than the traditional Russian patronymic.

Speaking Russian in this time of war is as much about the words you cannot say as those you can.

Memes generated by Russia's stark new reality are affecting language and usage.

The Russian Supreme Court upholds a Kafkaesque ban on Navalny using prison slang.

War has a way of changing the language, and not necessarily for the better.

Moldova has passed a law labeling Romanian its national language amid suspected Moscow-fueled protests. 

Kyiv-Mohlya Academy has banned the Russian language inside the institution.

The State Duma began reviewing a new law that would restrict the use of foreign loan words in official Russian communications.

Annual rating of English language proficiency worldwide shows Russia holding steady, notwithstanding anti-Western propaganda and travel bans.

A translator with Russian roots ruminates on her past, and what it means to be a Russophile today.

...and you are likely to find a Tatar one beneath it. We dig into the sordid details.