The Journal was founded in 2008 by Kirill Babaev and is published in Russia and the US. In Moscow, its publishers are Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Science. In the US, the Journal is published by Gorgias Press. The Journal is issued four times a year and contains articles written in English, Russian, French and German, as well as academic reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars. The distribution network covers the universities, libraries and scientific institutions as well as individual scholars around the world.

All papers submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed using the double-blind procedure. We welcome authors to submit their articles devoted to comparative and historical linguistics.

All papers are published in Platinum Open Access model (free for authors, free for readers).