WordTips examined both the de facto and de jure official languages of every country and overseas territory in the world, and totaled up the number of times each one was listed. English came out on top ...

China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese culture and goods have become ubiquitous in Moscow.

It was founded to ensure people living in restrictive regimes in post-Soviet states had access to uncensored news. But the ...

Europe has many sizeable countries with expansive topographical features to match. Here are the biggest organized from least ...

Blink and you miss it: the G7 summit at Calgary was effectively over almost as soon as it began. Yet what we have just ...

Countdown season 1 is a crime drama series that debuted on Amazon Prime Video on June 25, 2025. Derek Haas has created and written the series and also serves as its showrunner.

Tasmania is a small island, but there are 177 nations represented among its population. Mark Thomson and Andrew Wilson have set out to interview and photograph at least one person from each of those ...

Two Exiled Belarusian Publishers Share Prix Voltaire for Defending Their Language and Culture (Corrects 3rd paragraph to say Kandrusevich now lives in Poland, not Sweden) By Mark Trevelyan ...

Russian has been the dominant language in Belarus since Soviet times, so speaking and writing in the native tongue is itself an act of resistance, Mr. Strotsev said. His mission, he said, is “to bear ...

Belarus pushes new language rules: foreign words, abbreviations under scrutiny 06.02.2025 11:15 In a bid to “protect the national cultural space” and promote what authorities term ...

Last Saturday, Belarusian authorities released by presidential pardon 14 prisoners, all jailed as a result of politically motivated prosecutions, and transferred them to neighboring Lithuania.