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A day after parliament gave its final approval to the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, transgender actor and model Kesaria Avramidze was stabbed to death in her apartment in| Erasing 76 Crimes
ALEX AVERBUCH Russians are already in Starobilsk / what nonsense / Dmytrovka and Zhukivka – who is there? / half a hundred bears went past in the / direction of Oleksiivka / write more clearly / what’s the situation in Novoaidar? / the bridge by café Natalie got blown up / according to unconfirmed reports| The Common
ALEX AVERBUCH Russians are already in Starobilsk / what nonsense / Dmytrovka and Zhukivka – who is there? / half a hundred bears went past in the / direction of Oleksiivka / write more clearly / what’s the situation in Novoaidar? / the bridge by café Natalie got blown up / according to unconfirmed reports| The Common
Alyosha was the younger brother. He was called the Pot, because his mother had once sent him with a pot of milk to the deacon’s wife, and he had stumbled against something and broken it. His mother had beaten him, and the children had teased him. Since then he was nicknamed the Pot. I was … Continue reading Alyosha the Pot | Leo Tolstoy #shortstory| This Reading Life
Learning the Russian alphabet is the first step in learning Russian. Here's how to master the Cyrillic alphabet so that you can supercharge your learning.| Speechling Official Blog
The whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a l…| This Reading Life
Nicolas Pasternak-Slater and Maya Slater have recently completed their translation of Tolstoy’s novel "Anna Karenina" (to be published in 2026 by the Folio Society). In this interview, Olga Kenton discusses with them the novel, obstacles that arose during the translation process, and the significance of engaging with Russian literature in the twenty-first century.| Reading in Translation
In 1961 kids (and some adults) around the world were introduced to the concept of a vehicle that could both fly and travel underwater – a flying submarine. The television show Supercar emerged from the fertile imaginations of British television show maker Gerry Anderson and his team at AP Films. Viewers were thrilled by the exploits of pilot Mike Mercury and his crew as they battled bad guys in the air, underwater and even at the edges of space. Anderson would go on to create other futurist...| PlaneHistoria
In 1934, St John Maximovitch was ordained ROCOR bishop of Shanghai and sent to shepherd the Russian exiles in China. Even before his episcopal ordination, when St John was teaching at the Bitol seminary in Serbia, the great Serbian bishop Nicholai Velimirovich famously said, “If you desire to see a living Saint, go to Bitol […]| Orthodox History
The Ukraine-based Safran publishing house focuses on niche literature: Asian books in Ukrainian translation. Global Voices interviewed its founder Svitlana Pryzynchuk, who lived in China and is now in Taiwan.| Global Voices Lingua
Artwork by Julia Soboleva On the 25th March 18–, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg. On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name Ivan Jakovlevitch. He had lost…| This Reading Life
At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds. The first of them – aged about forty, dressed in a greyish summer suit – was short, dark-ha…| This Reading Life
Editor’s note: Last year, Scott Kenworthy (whose landmark biography of St Tikhon comes out in November and is available now for preorder) sent me a remarkable email. He had discovered a letter written by Patriarch Tikhon to Patriarch Gregory IV of Antioch in 1922, dealing with the jurisdiction of Syrians/Antiochians in North America. The letter […]| Orthodox History
“When Hitler invaded the USSR in June 1941,” writes historian Jordan Hupka, “Stalin again changed the Soviet position on religion. All anti-religious publications ceased and some churches in major urban centres were allowed to open.”[1] Stalin was a shrewd man; as Steven Miner writes in Stalin’s Holy War, “Very early in the war, Stalin grasped […]| Orthodox History
Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porch, lost in thought. It was hot, the flies were persistent and teasing, and it was pleasant to ref…| This Reading Life
The small village of Kolotovka once belonged to a lady known in the neighbourhood by the nickname of Skin-flint, in illusion to her keen business habits (her real name is lost in oblivion), but has…| This Reading Life
On November 26, 2024, a Russian court in the Siberian city of Chita sentenced Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist Nika Novak to four years in prison.| USAGM
Intro comment 1: This post was originally written on Quora as an answer to this question: What was it like for a Russian Jew to escape to Israel in the 1990s? It was updated a bit, but the general …| Aharoni in Unicode
This post was originally written on Quora as an answer to this question: Many Russian Jews have emigrated to Israel. When they settle in Israel, do they keep their Russian language and culture along with learning Hebrew and English? It was changed somewhat to adapt it to a blog medium and for other copy editing. … Continue reading Keeping the Russian Language in Israel→| Aharoni in Unicode
Discover some of the best YouTube channels to learn Russian. These Russian YouTubers offer content for all levels, from beginner to advanced.| Second-Half Travels
Need to know how to teach yourself Russian? Discover my top resources and tips for how to learn Russian by yourself.| Second-Half Travels