Azerbaijani parents cannot give their children Russian names, government officials have said, describing the new policy as a “struggle for the purity of the language.” The fight against ...

Moscow is seeking a law that would make Russian the second state language in Azerbaijan, or at least make its status of lingua franca official. Azerbaijani authorities rule out granting Russian ...

Russian is a state language in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, while in Kazakhstan it is considered an official language. The distinction is largely symbolic. In most former Soviet republics, however, Russian ...