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 ...

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 ...

10 revealing facts about Russian. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Russian with audio.

Russian is one of six official languages of the United Nations. While learning Russian can be difficult because of its use of the Cyrllic alphabet and gender-based nouns, it can also be worth it for ...

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 ...

...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring A pro-Kremlin youth group has produced an alphabet for schools that teaches "love for the homeland" as well as literacy, it's been ...