In Russian, neither a Scrooge nor a Plyushkin be!

Bad news for Russian language students: it looks like there might soon be some new spelling rules to memorize. 

Researchers in Novosibirsk are working to develop the world's first Russian Sign Language-to-text translator. 

When you begin to learn Russian, you may be a bit puzzled by two “nows”: теперь and сейчас. Let's clear this up, right NOW.

In this issue's language page, we look at the influence that Italian has had on the Russian language.

In which our language insert looks at Russian words with German roots.

Yandex.Maps has completed a surprising study of all the places in Russia, and they even figured out how to get from the Moon to Mars. 

The legend of Russia's heroic defender passed into Stalinist myth with some help from one of the 20th century's most famous filmmakers.

In Russian, as in English, it isn’t nice to call someone “stupid.” But sometimes you just have to say it.

A poetic song about optimism is this issue's language study section.

This spring, a ruckus roiling US-Russian relations was one for the history books: It was the first spat that involved a children’s playground taunt.

This issue's Uchites language learning section focuses on the ever-mysterious Russian soul and where and how it shows up in phrases and usages.