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Sergei Yesenin. Biography, poems, and tragic fate
Вот семейное застолье где-нибудь в Бостоне или Торонто. Кто-то затягивает про клен опавший. Подхватывают. Потом про рощу золотую, потом дойдет…
The Cold War. Causes, events, and who won
Бывают войны, от которых остаются руины и братские могилы. А была однажды война, в которой две главные армии планеты так…
Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Main Differences
History's course can sometimes be decided by a single word. In an ancient Christian prayer, the Nicene Creed, it has always been said: The Holy Spirit proceeds...
Raising multilingual children, and what multilingualism gives a child
The evening is a weekday one, in a suburb located 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...