Listen to the Russian alphabet. Find out where it came from and how many sibilants it contains (lots). Read the story of English ex-pat Chris and Russian beauty, Irina, which has been written by you.

The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters. One particularity of Russian is a parallel language called “mat” that has origins in profane and obscene language and expressions. It became more widespread ...

In a study published in 2024, Ukrainian linguistics expert Volodymyr Kulyk documented a marked decline in the everyday use of ...

The Cyrillic alphabet is closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds. Along with English, Russian is the language of space.

"Without the Russian language, Turkmenistan is plunging into ... especially after Turkmenistan shifted to the Latin alphabet in 1993. Then there is Turkmen migration to Turkey, a standout trend ...

Following the switch to Estonian as the only language of instruction in schools, children from Russian-speaking families will not have to learn the Russian alphabet in Russian language classes ...

Russian dominated the mundane and the intimate: gossiping with friends during recess, writing in a journal ... area the “New Russia,” imposing the language of the metropole on the Ukrainian ...