The stereotype that Russian is an impossibly hard language comes from Russians themselves who don’t need to learn it and thus don’t really know anything about it. I try to hammer away at this ...

They not only changed the political order and overthrew the tsar, but also introduced new spelling rules and purged the Russian alphabet of several letters. The idea of reforming the Russian language ...

Students in the Siberian city of Irkutsk can now learn the Russian alphabet together with a hearty helping of the new political correctness, "The Siberian Times" reported on May 5. A pro-Kremlin group ...