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Who Is Mikola Gogol? Posted by josefina on Apr 12, 2008
This morning, while browsing through the main page of www.izvestia.ru for some appropriate piece of Russian news to comment on here, I came across this fascinating headline: «Микола Гоголь – нарезка в семи томах: украинские переводчики отредактировали и подправили “пророссийскую” повесть Гоголя “Тарас Бульба”» [Mikola Gogol – a slicing in seven volumes: Ukrainian translators edited…
The Community Project Posted by josefina on Apr 4, 2008
Some of the more attentive readers (or probably just about everyone who reads this) might have noticed that there’s a new feature to this blog – a little something called ‘Community Project’. After writing for this blog for about five months now I couldn’t help but to become aware of the good, sometimes even exceptional…
Where In Russia Is It Possible To Live? Posted by josefina on Mar 29, 2008
Good question! Of course there’s more to Russia than the Red Kremlin of Moscow and the bridges of Saint Petersburg, though you sometimes tend to forget about the rest, especially if you haven’t been there (which I suppose most tourist haven’t, only in those cities located along the railroad going east from the capitol). Russians…
What Do You Call A Foreign Car in Russian? Posted by josefina on Mar 26, 2008
Today my plan was to comment on one of two news, either «Психолог для грешников» [http://www.izvestia.ru/lpage/article3114416/] or «Православная общественность намерена переименовать Свердловскую область» [http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id286954.html] but during the day my mood changed, from being religiously aware (obviously, if judging by the headlines I chose in the morning) and thus aware of the ‘other’ world, to becoming…
How many languages does Russia know? Posted by josefina on Mar 16, 2008
Always the faithful reader of «Русский репортёр» [Russian reporter], I came across a rather fascinating article in the latest number (Nr. 9, 13-20 March 2008) under the headline of «Сколько языков знает Россия?» The article focuses on the 150 small languages being spoken by different nationalities in Russia, and their fate in the future of…