NAIROBI — Russia has recruited hundreds of young Africans to its Russian language and cultural programs across the continent over the past year as the spearhead of a wider push by the Kremlin to use ...

With the winter Olympics under way, all eyes will be trained on Russia for the next three weeks. But there’s a handful of students studying Russian through Kennewick Community Education who have been ...

Editor’s Note: Jill Dougherty is currently a CNN Contributor. She is a former CNN foreign affairs correspondent and Moscow bureau chief with expertise in Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is ...

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Visitors to Anchorage’s Turnagain Elementary School are more likely to hear pupils greet them with “Kak de-LAH” than “How are you?” They’d be well advised to respond with “nee-PLOH-hah” (not bad), and ...

Principal Michael McDonough of Bellaire High School was very proud, but not surprised when another group of his students took home gold, silver and bronze medals in a recent national Russian essay ...

Fast-forward a few years, and one of these young Russophiles might just evolve into the next Erin Doyle or Jimmy Lodge. Considered a linguistic phenom by his teachers and school administrators, Lodge, ...