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    Commentary: Why ‘canceling’ the Russian language isn’t the way to support Ukraine

    by Caroline Tracey, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2023 3 minutes
    Visitors inspect books at the first day of an annual high quality fiction and non-fiction book fair in Moscow as law increasing restrictions against' foreign agents' comes into force on December 1, 2022.

    During my sophomore year of college in 2010, I picked my major: Russian. I had been studying the language and was excited for the opportunity to read literature, learn about another part of the world and become bilingual. I updated my student profile on the university’s website and marched triumphantly to the cafeteria for lunch.

    There, I ran into an acquaintance and told him my decision. He looked at me quizzically, then scornfully said, “You realize it’s not the Cold War anymore, right?”

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now almost a year old, and with divisions over democracy, authoritarianism

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