Russian is the official language in the Russian Federation, which has a population of more than 140 million people. Russian is also spoken in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other republics of the ...

The formal "hello" in Russian is a necessary yet wholly unwelcoming word. It's packed with consonants that trip over each other, often within the same syllable. I try it over and over again, and only ...

Learning a new language requires a lot of time, but not necessarily a lot of money. Whether you're traveling to a foreign ...

On a Thursday evening, I walked to Makerere University to learn the basics of the Russian language. The tutor, Olga Andreevna ...

John Kerry joked that Harvard graduates should learn Russian if they want a job in President Trump's White House. In fact, global politics has always influenced what languages Americans choose to ...

Enduring suffocating g-force and spending hours cramped in tiny simulators may seem the hardest aspects of astronaut training. But for Commander Tim Peake, learning to speak Russian fluently was by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Big business’s exodus from Russia marks a morally-driven retreat from what was once the world’s biggest and ...

Many people who are learning to speak Russian agonise over its pronunciation and grammar. The various endings of the nouns, six cases, two aspects of the verbs and the correct placement of stress may ...

John Kerry joked that Harvard graduates should learn Russian if they want a job in President Trump's White House. In fact, global politics has always influenced what languages Americans choose to ...