The number of Russian speakers in Central Asia has declined since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, mostly due to sociodemographic factors such as the migration of ethnic Russians and population ...

I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished. The writer Paul Tough and his son Max.Credit...Gueorgui Pinkhassov for The ...

IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...