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How to Dress Your Child (and Yourself) for Russian Winter Posted by yelena on Feb 26, 2010
I’ve only been with this blog for a few weeks and I’m already breaking «расписание» [schedule] that Josefina and I planned for this month. I was supposed to tell you how to make a particularly tasty Russian salad. But I feel that, given the time of the year and the fact that many of «наши…
The Russian Soul of Winter Olympics: “Русская душа зимних олимпиад” Posted by yelena on Feb 19, 2010
The Vancouver Winter Olympics started last week, on February 12. The day before “церемонии открытия” [the opening ceremony], “премьер-министр Владимир Путин” [Prime Minister Vladimir Putin] addressed the athletes, giving them a combination of pep talk and partying words known in Russian as “напутствие” (lit.: for the road): Мы все с нетерпением ждём стартов и…