‘Donbas is fiction’ — Kateryna Zarembo’s book dismantles Russian myths about Ukraine’s east
For some, Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts evoke images of coal mines, industrial sprawl, and Russian-speaking culture ...
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'What I can offer my motherland:' Ukrainian Jews translate the Torah into their national language for first time
When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do ...
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Ukrainian Jews have historically spoken Russian. The war is changing that.
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 ...
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Medvedev criticizes idea that Russian, Ukrainian languages inherently different
"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 ...
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A brief history of Ukraine's fraught relationship with Russia
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 ...
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The first Passover haggadah in Ukrainian marks a community’s break with Russia
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.