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There are two frames that deserve to be placed side by side. In the first one, there is a monkey from the 1936 film: round ears, round eyes, sweeping gestures,...
A teenager brings home a video found through a search for Joseph Stalin. A cheerful voiceover announces that the leader inherited a country with a wooden plow,…
At the end of March, the ice on Baikal holds a truck, while being so transparent that a person standing on it sees...
A history project happens in the life of every child growing up between two languages. It is usually brought home in the evening, when it is due tomorrow, and…
An ordinary word doesn't have a birth date. No one can say in what year Russians started saying «bread» or «road»; linguists argue...
The sunniest holiday on the Russian calendar is celebrated when the sun has already been waning for two weeks. The solstice in this century...
Talk about the Romanovs almost never starts with 1613. It starts with the 1997 animated film that children watch...
An old wooden board used to be found in almost every home. It was brought out in the kitchen after dinner, laid out on a bench in the yard,...
The Russian fairy tale gives away its ending in the very first line. A father had three sons, two smart and the third a fool. The listener...
Russian food has words that trip up any phrasebook. Type "food in Russian" into a search engine, and you'll get a neat column:…
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