A foreword written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is raising concerns in Eastern Europe that Moscow is once again laying the groundwork to challenge a neighbor’s international borders.

“The Russian language is everywhere again,” said Darius Kuolys, a linguist at the University of Vilnius and a former Lithuanian culture minister. “To some Lithuanians, this has come as a ...

It turned out that today almost 70% of Lithuanian schoolchildren study Russian. Vilnius does not yet plan to introduce a ban on the study of the Russian language in schools. But the Ministry of ...

For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule. Following the gentle bends of the ...

Across the 48 countries in Europe, a vast array of languages are spoken. This diverse continent, spanning 19.53 million square kilometres, is home to nearly 750 million people. Over 200 languages ...

Lithuania's education ministry has said that it will "revise" all Russian-language textbooks amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. A total of 13 school books will be assessed by the country's ...

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ... followed suit and appealed to the State Commission for the Lithuanian Language to rename the Kaliningrad Oblast and the city of Kaliningrad to ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia regained their independence and Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian replaced Russian as the official language in these ...