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 ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

UC Davis student Ryleigh Praker demonstrates the language skills she has learned studying in the UC Davis Russian program. (Ryleigh Praker/UC Davis) “If asked for the most important advice I could ...

IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...