Ukraine’s new language law, passed at the end of the former president’s rule, makes another attempt to divide Ukrainian citizens. If Russian democracy ends where Ukraine begins, as a popular saying ...

A language law came into force in Ukraine on January 16 that requires all national print media to be published in the country’s official language, Ukrainian, in a bid to push back against the use of ...

The interrelationship between law and language is manifestly powerful. Once it touches the sacrosanct body of law, even an ordinary word used by a lay person may have the potential of offering varied ...

Civil servants who can't speak Kyrgyz will be fired from their jobs, officials in Bishkek warned as a law came into force making it compulsory for public-sector workers to be proficient in the state ...

Riot police have deployed teargas and batons in Ukraine to repress a protest march against a new law that boosts the status of the Russian language inside the former Soviet country. Hundreds of ...

Commission’s suggestion – that North Macedonia's language law is too generous to ethnic minorities – has potential to cause discord between the main governing party and its ethnic Albanian allies.