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Word of the week: «Прикалываться» Posted by josefina on Sep 27, 2008
In my post from last week, “On Free Magazines & Expats in Russia”, I used the verb «прикалываться» without thinking twice about it. I did so even after I searched for a proper translation of the word into English without finding one. My trusted Kenneth Katzner dictionary only translates «прикалывать» [impf, pf – «приколоть»] as…
On Free Magazines & Expats in Russia Posted by josefina on Sep 18, 2008
As an attentive reader always on the look-out for some kind of text to stuff myself with so as to aquiere new, often wholly and fully useless, information I love free magazines. And that’s one of the pluses of living right now, in a time and place where journalism is in crisis and free magazines…
Word of the Week: трезвость [sobriety] Posted by josefina on Sep 15, 2008
«Только трезвая Россия станет великой!»[Only a Sober Russia Will Become Great!] Since I’m back in Russia I am also fully and completely back in the blogging game, now that I once again can catch the country of interest in her everyday activities, like for example this poster above. I found it on the wall of…
Безопасно ли летать в России? [Is It Safe to Fly In Russia?] Posted by josefina on Sep 14, 2008
It’s happened again. A plane crashed at 3:10 по московскому времени [Moscow time] right before it was supposed to land in Пермь [Perm’], a city with over a million inhabitants located about six hours west of Yekaterinburg, on the European side of the Ural Mountains. I’m quoting an article from the Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter: “All…
Omniglot: An Invaluable Reference for Language Enthusiasts Posted by josefina on Apr 9, 2008
Simon Ager, otherwise known as Omniglot, is well known in the language learning community. His online language resources are unparalleled, and provide perhaps the best, most accessible alphabetic reference available. For those of you who are starting out with Russian and are still frustrated by the Cyrillic alphabet, be sure to check out his…
From Russia with Humor: EnglishRussia.com Posted by josefina on Jan 23, 2008
Even though I don’t think anyone with even the slightest interest in Russia can possibly have missed this amazing blog, I still felt like I have an obligation to tell the world about it. Every time I take yet another picture out and about in the Great Russia, capturing her peculiar splendor and her eccentric…
«Даниэль Штайн, переводчик» – Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s last novel? Posted by josefina on Dec 19, 2007
In Русский репортёр №26 [October 29th – December 6th 2007] I came across a short interview, in the magazine’s feature «семь вопросов» [seven questions], with writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya [Людмила Улицкая]. She recently received the Russian literary award Большая книга (Big book) for her novel published in 2007, «Даниель Штейн, переводчик» (“Daniel Stein, translator”). This…