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Raising multilingual children, and what multilingualism gives a child
It's a weekday evening in a suburb west of Boston. Vera is eight…
Yuri Gagarin. The first man in space
On April 12, 1961, at a cosmodrome in the middle of the Kazakh steppe, a man in a spacesuit said one short word. "Let's go." And the rocket took off...
Russian language facts, numbers, and curiosities
Mila is eleven, and her week was taken up by a poster on the Russian language, so the questions she…
С днём рождения (S dnyom rozhdeniya)
Max is eight, and his grandmother's birthday was the first occasion on which something in Russian that…
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...
USSR. What it was, when it was created, and how it dissolved
Grandma drops «we didn't have that in the Soviet Union» into conversation, Grandpa recalls a Pioneer camp and the first satellite, in the old...
Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table. The History of the Discovery
There's a scene in the history of science that one wants to retell endlessly. A Petersburg professor compiled a table of all known elements and left in it...
How many people speak Russian in the world. Facts and statistics
On the face of it, the question is simple: how many people in the world speak Russian. But there is no exact answer. The numbers in different…
Russian Food: A Guide to Traditional Cuisine
A Friday evening at a kitchen table near Philadelphia is a useful place from which to ask the question, What is...