Russian language and literature encompasses research topics ranging from historical linguistics and general linguistic theory to sociological phenomena of the contemporary language, and from the ...

Major in Russian, a language the U.S. State Department deems "critical," and gain a decisive edge for career success in law, journalism, international affairs and public and government services.

Before, it was also against the law to use words and phrases that didn’t conform with the norms of the contemporary literary Russian language, including obscenities MOSCOW, February 28.

Russian was the official language in the Soviet-occupied territories of the Baltic States. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia regained their ...