I wanted to learn Ukrainian but there was a shortage of books, software, online resources, and teachers of the language in the States then, and now. In the article, I interviewed Ksenia Golubytska, ...

Russian has long been the first language for a wide swath ... Jews can truly “learn more about the Ukrainian people,” she said, “about their history and the positive qualities and strengths ...

The history helps explain why ... and sparked a push to translate Ukraine’s Jewish life into the Ukrainian language. “Ukrainian Jews always spoke Russian. That really was the norm.

"And all the more obvious is the foolishness of the idea that the true Ukrainian language, which exists 'somewhere out there' in Western Ukraine is so far removed from Russian," Dmitry Medvedev ...

The history of what we now think of as Russia ... curtailing or even banning the use of the Ukrainian language, forcing the Uniate Catholics to convert to the Russian Orthodox Church, purging ...