A senior Lithuanian official has noted that the influx of Ukrainian refugees has contributed to a rise in the use of the ...

“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 ...

A top Lithuanian official has acknowledged that the Russian language is becoming more commonly heard in public spaces, a trend linked to the ar ...

VILNIUS – The Department of National Minorities has emphasized that Russian is not just the language of recent arrivals in Lithuania, but also the native language of the country's Russian national ...

Russian is taught as a native tongue in 30 of the country’s 409 general schools. Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, and German schools teach it as a second foreign language. Russian ...

The proportion of Lithuanian sixth‑graders studying Russian as their second foreign language has plunged to 43.5% from 76% in ...

When I am with my family in public, we are often asked what language we are speaking, or where we are from. The most common guesses are Russian, Polish or Latvian – none of which are correct.

"In the end, the Soviets murdered all of them." The ensuing decades were ones of stifling Soviet rule. The unique Lithuanian language was discouraged and learning Russian was compulsory.

Ukrainian and Russian are both part of the Slavonic (or Slavic) language family. This group of related languages in central and eastern Europe also includes Polish, Czech and Bulgarian.

Other frequently cited second languages include French, Russian, and Hungarian. Across Europe, 15 unique languages were identified as the second most popular, including official languages such as ...