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 a corridor in my university<\/a> earlier today. The poster was not a complete shocker to me, as I and probably everybody else have known about Russians’ relationship with alcohol [i.e. vodka<\/a>] for some time. Adding to this, last Saturday the first ever \u00ab\u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0442\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u00bb<\/a><\/strong> was \u2018celebrated’ here in Yekaterinburg. I didn’t find out about until Sunday night – as I was being served a vodka martini – but could at least pride myself at having been sober the previous day. But enough about me, let’s instead take a closer look at word of the week and it’s \u2018relatives’, with \u2018relatives’ meaning words that have some kind of relation to it.<\/p>\n \u0442\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c<\/strong> = sobriety; temperance; abstinence<\/p>\n \u00ab\u0442\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0443\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> = cool-headedness<\/p>\n \u0442\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0437\u0432\u044b\u0439<\/strong>= 1. sober; not drunk, 2. colloq.<\/em> who does not drink; teetotaling, 3. fig.<\/em> sober; realistic<\/p>\n \u00ab\u0423 \u043d\u0435\u0433\u043e<\/span> \u0432\u0437\u0433\u043b\u044f\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0436\u0438\u0437\u043d\u044c \u043d\u0435 \u043e<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0442\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0437\u0432\u044b\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> = His view on life isn’t very realistic.<\/p>\n \u0442\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0432\u043e <\/strong>= adv<\/em>.<\/em> soberly<\/p>\n \u0442\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u044c<\/strong>(impfv.)<\/em> \u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u044c<\/strong> (pfv.)<\/em> = to sober up; become sober<\/p>\n \u00ab<\/strong>\u041f\u043e\u0434<\/strong>\u0443<\/span><\/strong>\u0442\u0440\u043e<\/strong>\u043e\u043d\u0430<\/span><\/strong>\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0430\u043b\u0430<\/span><\/strong>\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u044c<\/strong>\u00bb<\/strong> = Toward morning she began sobering up.<\/p>\n \u0442\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0437\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0438\u043a<\/strong> = colloq<\/em>.<\/em> teetotaler<\/p>\n And one last very useful word when it comes to discussing sobrietry with Russians [but be warned – it is far from \u2018literary’<\/em> in any means, and should only be used among good friends or with strangers that could become good friends]:<\/p>\n \u00ab\u0441\u0443\u0445\u043e<\/span>\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u043d\u00bb<\/a><\/strong> = \u2018<\/a>dry law’<\/a><\/p>\n \u00ab\u0423 \u0432\u0430\u0441 \u0441\u0435\u0439\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0441 \u0441\u0443\u0445\u043e<\/span>\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u043d?\u00bb<\/strong> = \u00a0Are you drinking now (these days)? [lit<\/em>. \u2018are you having a dry law now?’, a question that could be good to pose from time to time, as Russians will sometimes, not all, but some, try not to drink from in periods of sobriety].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00ab\u0422\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043a\u043e \u0442\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0435\u0442 \u0432\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0439!\u00bb[Only a Sober Russia Will Become Great!]\u00a0 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…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/09\/sobersmall-350x170.jpg\")