Staunton, Sept. 20 – If Ukraine and Belarus shift from the Cyrillic-based alphabets they now use to Latin scripts, they will not only inflict a symbolic wound to the Russian world but threaten Moscow’s ability to address Russia’s demographic crisis by reducing the number of Ukrainians and Belarusians who could reidentify as Russians, Oleg Khavich says.
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A view of the Kremlin taken during the last day of the three-day parliamentary and local elections in Moscow on Sept. 19, 2021.
