Putin’s New Year Message to Russians in Translation
…and public statements have focused on over the past year: encouraging family values and self-reliance among Russians. Below, you will find a video of the speech in the original Russian…
Read More…and public statements have focused on over the past year: encouraging family values and self-reliance among Russians. Below, you will find a video of the speech in the original Russian…
Read More…add cars to the trains – and will probably have to increase the frequency of the trains themselves to fully meet demand. Ironically, those using the old elektrichka system reported…
Read More…the application; indeed, most parties that apply for registration are denied. Critics, however, argued that it showed that Parnas had never seriously intended to become a registered party and that…
Read More…12 minutes to arrive, only to find out that their defibrillator’s battery was already drained. After he was briefly resuscitated at the rink, Cherepanov was ultimately pronounced dead after being…
Read More…had essentially separated themselves under the Khrushchev administration of the early 1960s due primarily to de-Stalinization, Russia’s lack of assistance to China in pursuing nuclear weapons, the aforementioned bitterness over…
Read More…was turned into a completely planned and modern city. It officially became the capital on December 10, 1997 and, with approximately 575,000 people, is now the third largest city in…
Read More…perform fantastic feats of engineering and complete spectacularly large projects, that potential is yet to be fully realized. Although Russia was the first country to conquer a bit of the…
Read More…Russia and especially Moscow. It was authored in the original Russian by Olga Churakova. We highly recommend that students view the original story, available online. Below the introductory text has…
Read More…such as works by Jules Vernes, Franz Kafka, and John Steinbeck, respectively, in addition to serving as speaking-clubs. The supervisor of the German Room told me (Lily) that the library…
Read More…has also not been without problems. Problems are also commonly created by the fact that individual consuls interpret instructions from the Foreign Ministry individually. This reform will likely be no…
Read More…is not yet widely considered an LME. Although Kazakhstan’s autocratic president is unlikely to relinquish political control anytime soon, and his extended family controls many of the country’s largest firms,…
Read More…Banderites and do not approve of the new government. Also, some aren’t totally against joining Russia—but only without war. Since Berdyansk is a port city, it is strategically important. Uncertainty…
Read More…News. July 21 1955. Newspapers.com. “Bountiful ‘Lunch’ for the Russians.” Council Bluffs Nonpareil. July 19, 1955. Newspapers.com. “Iowans Meet Soviet Hosts on Farm Tour.” Carrol Daily Times. July 16, 1955….
Read More…that a bureaucrat’s rights are never entirely stable, but also the question of his progeny and their future. Our new cult of the family has hardly appeared out of the…
Read More…us. Reporters, while initially skeptical, almost universally ended up portraying people facing physical difficulties successfully as a contrast to others in the society, who loved to complain about how bad…
Read More…their kingdoms, it gradually became evident that Georgia simply could not adequately defend itself alone. Under the 1783 treaty of Georgievsk, Russia promised to protect Georgian autonomy, but Tsar Paul…
Read More…Lipetsk Oblast; it is a beautiful potato-growing region. In the 1990s many residents there collectively grew potatoes on individual plots (ed: usually in private gardens without machinery, fertilizer, etc.). Apparently,…
Read More…The National Library of Kyrgyzstan has three main floors, each encircling a wide open center where the main staircase is located. The first floor is primarily dedicated to reception. A…
Read More…development while Kyiv is an administrative center for government and business. Their relatively young, strongly middle-class populations tend to more strongly identify themselves as ethnically Ukrainian and tend to favor…
Read More…that Russia was Serbia’s main ally, but quickly added that “every cooperating state is an ally” (Interview, Belgrade, Serbia, 17 Nov. 2013). Aleksandar was the only one who was completely…
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