The State Examination Centre has held the foreign-language PhD examination for doctoral candidates, dissertation researchers ...

Moscow is seeking a law that would make Russian the second state language in Azerbaijan, or at least make its status of lingua franca official. Azerbaijani authorities rule out granting Russian ...

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 ...