If you give a child a globe and ask them to find Earth on it, the task sounds strange. They already have the entire Earth in their hands…
In a Russian school, such a map has a second name. Mute. A mute map is a geographical map without names. For our kit...
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...
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...
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...
We use a simple scheme at school. Three minutes before watching, a short clip and a conversation after, and a regular cartoon becomes a full-fledged...
Nine-year-old Artem arrived in New Jersey in July, and in early September he went to the third grade of an American school, knowing only a few English words...
Open a Russian newspaper from 1916. The first thing that catches your eye won't be the yat. It will be the hard sign. It sticks out almost everywhere: godъ,…
In the 1920s, the Russian language abbreviated everything in sight and at some point got around to people. Boys were named Vladlen, from Vladimir...
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