KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - Seven 7th Mission Support Command Soldiers are spending the week learning Russian. The Army Reserve Soldiers are from the 361st Civil Affairs Brigade headquarters in ...

Russian culture is alive and well on the Peninsula. Groups in Newport News and Virginia Beach are teaching, sharing and preserving Russian history, language and tradition through regular activities.

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.

We may not be thrilled with our housebound conditions, but what better opportunity for learning a foreign language? By Stephanie Rosenbloom It’s a classic travel fantasy: flying to another country to ...