Like so many others this week, we here at BILD are deeply shocked and saddened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We take this opportunity to remind BILD readers that nearly a year ago, in April 2021, our J-BILD journal published a special issue entitled “Boundaries and Belonging: Language, Diaspora, and Motherland” (v5n1), guest-edited by Alla Nedashkivska and Holger Kusse. Four of the articles in the special issue discuss language issues in contemporary Ukraine: “Native Language Activism: Exploring Language Ideologies in Ukraine,” by Alla Nedashkivska; “The Instrumentalization of the Language Issue in Ukraine,” by Marianna Novosolova; “Bloggers as Social Actors in Language Policy Debates in Ukraine,” by Nadiya Kiss; and “Language Tenacity of Ukrainians in the 20th Century as a Means of National Self-Assertion,” by Liudmyla Pidkuimukha. The abstracts are below. We encourage our readers to find out more about the linguistic resilience of the Ukrainian people through these articles, and to support their struggle by spreading the word about their extraordinary courage under fire.

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