Yokhor is an ancient circle dance that is performed in Buryatia at folk festivals. Hundreds of people gather in a ring, take each other's hands and move in a circle jumping up and down, speeding ...

Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, is a modern metropolis with skyscrapers, shopping malls, wide avenues and with an oriental flavor. It is home to one of the largest mosques in Europe, ‘The Heart ...

When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no ...

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Russian language and literature encompasses research topics ranging from historical linguistics and general linguistic theory to sociological phenomena of the contemporary language, and from the ...

After years of increasing pressure, the Latvian government has begun issuing orders for the longtime Russian residents who ...

The American Sign Language and deaf cultural studies minor prepares students in the multidisciplinary study of American Sign Language and deaf culture. The minor is open to hearing and deaf students ...

After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Meta blocked Russian state-run media from running ads on its platform. Executives from Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet, which owns ...

The Kazakh language has long been unsure which alphabet to find a comfortable home in and it's now in for another transition - but this is not without controversy. Last Friday Kazakh President ...

Russia under the czars and in the era of the Soviet Union imposed its language ... Belarusian, which like Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, is hardly heard on the streets of Minsk and other ...

The ASL and Deaf Cultural Studies immersion prepares students in the multi-disciplinary study of American Sign Language and Deaf Culture. Open to hearing and deaf students, courses address topics in ...

Belarusian, which like Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, is hardly heard ... “The Belarusian language is increasingly perceived as a sign of political disloyalty and is being abandoned in ...