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A popular song about paintings helps language learners pick up some artistic vocabulary.

On how recent foreign borrowings is shaping the Russian language.

Here's a suggestion for improving your Russian: watch Russian TV. But which TV? Here's a suggestion...

In her final Uchites column for Russian Life, Natalia Gogolitsyna takes a look at one of Russia's most beloved filmmakers and the winged phrases that are one of his legacies.

A rather adequate look at the rise of "adekvatny" and "neadekvatny" in colloquial speech.

In this issue’s Uchites, we look at New Year’s by reading a very old text and learning a popular children’s song.

Every year, a group of Russian word-lovers vote on the word – or rather words – of the year. Here are the results.

A look at the evolving language of real estate in Russia.

In this issue’s Uchites, we look at verbs of motion, a bane of the Russian language student’s existence.

In which we review three books and a DVD we like. See the book reviews section for detailed reviews.

Verbs of Motion