Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael McFaul, Former United States Ambassador to Russia, believes that the United States needs to increase Ukrainian studies in ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

Celebrities in Kyiv, a businessman in Kharkiv, an interior designer from Crimea...they're all studying Ukrainian amid a growth in interest in learning the language among the country's native Russian ...