More and more schools are implementing rules regarding the use of AI. What will students be allowed to do with ChatGPT in 2026?
A child submits an essay. ChatGPT wrote half of it. In one school, they'll give him a failing grade and call his parents. In another, they'll shrug...
June 17, 2026
Russian proverbs and sayings with translation
When will he come to his senses? The Russian will wave his hand: "After the rain on Thursday." Ask the same question to an Englishman, and he'll shrug...
June 16, 2026
How to Watch the 2026 World Cup With Your Kids — and Make It About More Than Just Soccer
Watching a match can be a waste, or it can become a small language event for a child. It depends not on the football, but on...
June 16, 2026
Why Soccer Is the Best Teacher of Russian—Something You May Not Have Considered
Evening, a World Cup match is on, and here the ball, after an unbelievable feint, flies into the net. You jump off the couch, and a child...
June 16, 2026
Hedgehog in the Fog. Why It's the Best Cartoon of All Time
In the spring of 2003, the Tokyo Animation Festival «Laputa» launched an unprecedented vote: professionals in world cinema, of whom about a hundred and fifty gathered, were offered...
June 14, 2026
Best Soviet Cartoons. Classics That Are Still Watched Today
When the great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, creator of world-renowned animated masterpieces, is asked about his favorite films, he names the Soviet...
June 13, 2026
Koshchei the Deathless. The main villain of Russian fairy tales
People have done all sorts of things with death in fairy tales: they've hidden from it, tricked it, begged for extensions. But one character went further...
June 12, 2026
Russian love poems. The best lines by Pushkin, Yesenin, Akhmatova, and Tsvetaeva
Eight lines, written almost two hundred years ago, still remain the formula for the most dignified parting of love. «I loved you:..."
June 12, 2026
Baba Yaga. Who is she and how has her image changed over the centuries
There is no other house like it in any fairy tale in the world. In the middle of a dense forest stands a hut, and it stands on chicken legs...
June 11, 2026
Sergei Yesenin. Biography, poems, and tragic fate
Here is a family gathering somewhere in Boston or Toronto. Someone starts talking about fallen maple leaves. Others join in. Then it goes to golden groves, and eventually...
June 11, 2026
