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Слово «столица» родня слову «стол». Не тому столу, за которым обедают, хотя и ему тоже. В старом языке стол это…
«Where’s the car?» «There.» The child points to the sofa. The adult wants to add: not there, but under the sofa. But for the first conversation about…
A piece of paper is hanging on the door of a Warsaw shop. Four lines, in large letters. A Russian standing in front of it for the first time understands about half. Worse...
A writer who translates his own book can usually be congratulated. He is the only person in the world who knows exactly what was meant. Vladimir...
At the end of the message, the person adds: «PS. I'll be later tomorrow.» If you type PS without switching from the Russian keyboard layout, you get ZY. In...
Valentina Petrovna was turning sixty-five. On the fourteenth of March, in Samara. And her son-in-law was sitting in Ann Arbor in front of a glowing screen and already...
«Reading the book, the light went out.» That's how bilingual children write, and the phrase seems flawless to them. All the words are Russian, the subordinate clause is constructed correctly, and the comma is on the…
«Another piece?» «Thank you». «Should I put it there or not?» «No, thank you. It’s really small». «Well, I can’t, it’s really delicious, but I…»
Late 1924, the provincial administration. Alexander Zubkov, secretary of the new artel, brings in its charter for approval. The officials look on with suspicion. The applicants...
In March 1921 in Moscow, at a congress of his own party, a man announced to the delegates that it was once again possible to trade. That the peasant would henceforth…
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