There was absolutely nothing Ukrainian. It was a very large pro-Russian machine.” That’s how one Ukrainian teenager described a camp in Crimea where he was sent against his will and subjected to ...

Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don't trust each other and violence seems likely. Now ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...

But the war also changed Russia itself far more than most outsiders grasp. No cease-fire, not even one brokered by a U.S.

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

Uzbekistan’s continuing reluctance to join the Eurasian Economic Union highlights the Central Asian nation’s preference to keep Russia at arm’s length. At the same time, deep economic ties – including ...

Sofi Oksanen draws on her family’s history of Soviet colonisation and reports of the war in Ukraine to argue Russia uses violence against women as a weapon of war.

With some 20,000 Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia, we investigate the woman Putin put in charge of the ...

There are "multiple options for Russia to test the cohesion of the alliance," the ex-head of NATO's Multinational Corps ...

On Wednesday, the Stanford department of Slavic languages and literatures hosted a colloquium featuring Stuart H. Goldberg, ...

One example of a concept we looked at was “horse”, for which the top-scoring languages included French, German, Kazakh and ...