The Russian Language
Russian Phrases and Idioms: The 50 Most Common Ones
Mark is nine, he lives in Chicago and thinks he knows Russian. He chats easily with his grandmother, watches cartoons without subtitles, in…
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:..."
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...
Moscow. What to see and how to spend 3 days
Moscow is a city that's impossible to see in one go; it's too vast, diverse, and fast-paced. But if you have...
Russians in the USA. History, emigration, and life today
There is a street in New York where the signs are ablaze with Russian letters, where the shops sell black bread, herring under a fur coat, and candies...
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