Azerbaijani parents cannot give their children Russian names, government officials have said, describing the new policy as a “struggle for the purity of the language.” The fight against ...

Russian is a state language in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, while in Kazakhstan it is considered an official language. The distinction is largely symbolic. In most former Soviet republics, however, Russian ...

Dictionary of the Juhuro-Mountain Jew Language was published in Baku, one of the authors of the dictionary Mikhail Agarunov said. "The publication of this dictionary is another sign of how much ...

The Ministry of National Education has removed a book from publication after receiving criticism for describing "the Diyarbakır dialect" without making any reference to Kurdish. The book entitled "Our ...