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How to maintain your Russian

Learning a language is hard. Keeping it when you don't have classes is even harder. So this article is not…

A long way home, or leaving Russia in Corona times

I love Russia. I have been living in St. Petersburg for almost two months, and after travelling all around the…

The Russians and Russia on films and TV series

Oh, the Russians! I was recently watching the last season of Stranger Things and, to my surprise, Russians are quite…

5 short (and not so short) stories by Anton Chekhov for absolute beginners

This year Russia celebrated the 160th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov, a writer, and playwright whose works are…

Bone Music – defying Soviet censorship

In an attempt to improve my Russian skills, I decided to start watching a TV series in Russian. After thorough…