Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the ...

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Their common language was Russian, as it was deliberately positioned by the Soviet authorities as the ‘language of interethnic communication.’ However, all of this, of course, did not make these ...