January 01, 2016 The Year in Words A look back on the words and phrases that defined the Russian language in 2015.
November 01, 2015 Email and the Russian Soul Where we take on the knotty issues of how to start and end an email in Russian. Plus of course some of the stuff in between.
September 01, 2015 Say What? Every once in a while someone asks me how to translate a particular phrase, and my answer is not that it can’t be translated or that it is hard to translate, but that there’s no point in translating it: We just don’t say it that way.
July 01, 2015 Baby It's Cold Outside When i first arrived in Moscow, I couldn’t say much in Russian, but I could talk about the weather.
May 01, 2015 A War By Any Other Name This issue's language column looks at the many subtleties of what one calls the war, and some parts of it.
March 01, 2015 Sticks and Stones The war in Ukraine has been accompanied by an often incomprehensible war of words. We investigate.
January 01, 2015 The Long and Short of It Some well know short idioms actually have longer context that helps illuminate their deeper meanings.
November 01, 2014 The English Invasion Russia may have become staunchly anti-Western, but it would be very hard to say the same thing about the language.
September 01, 2014 The Doctor is In Make your Russian a bit healthier with this dose of medical speak.
July 01, 2014 Leaving City Life Behind Summer means it is time to head to the dacha. Here are some linguistic items to pack before heading out.
March 01, 2014 You Can Leave Your Hat On On the many ways shapkas have creeped into the Russian lexicon...
