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The pot of cabbage soup is heard before it is seen. The smell comes right from the doorstep. In the multi-apartment house, the whole staircase knows it. O…
In the autumn of 1967, a Moskvich was driving along the Vladimir highway, driven by an employee of the newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura. Yury...
In the 1920s, the Russian language abbreviated everything in sight and at some point got around to people. Boys were named Vladlen, from Vladimir...
A beverage shelf in a supermarket somewhere near Boston. Kombucha in glass. Ginger ale. Between them a dark plastic bottle, on the label...
On the kitchen table lie two maps of Africa, and both are white. One is from the school atlas that mother brought with her to...
A teenager brings home a video found through a search for Joseph Stalin. A cheerful voiceover announces that the leader inherited a country with a wooden plow,…
A familiar sight. A parent installs the app with the green owl, subscribes to a podcast, bookmarks a couple of channels. The first week is energetic. After a…
In the play, next to the line, there are parentheses. «I won't go» (defiantly). And right after: «I won't go» (confused). The words…
At an American school roll call, the teacher reaches a Russian family and stumbles. The list features Ivanov and Ivanova, brother and...
The words «mother,» «brother,» and «home» sound suspiciously similar from Iceland to India. German Mutter, English mother, Latin mater, Sanskrit matar,…
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