Anyone interested in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine should read Mark Liberman's Language Log post providing necessary details usually omitted from the usual East-West, European-Russian dichotomies served up in the press. There are a couple of maps, one electoral and one linguistic, and links to a number of informed discussions elsewhere (with representative quotes). I want to call attention in particular to Tobias Schwartz's post at A Fistful of Euros (which has been doing a great job covering the crisis in general) along with the comments by DoDo and frequent LH commenter Alexei.
Posted by languagehat at December 3, 2004 04:22 PM