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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...
Russian loanwords in English. Words you know
If you say the word "babushka" to an Englishman or an American, they'll most likely think not of a kind old woman, but of a headscarf,...
Is Russian difficult to learn?
A mother in a suburb north of Denver has done the reading that many parents in her position…