Proverbs and Sayings

This issue's Uchites looks at some familiar proverbs and helps you learn them by matching them up to rough equivalents in English.

On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1957: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV correspondent Daniel Schorr who became the first to interview the Soviet leader.

1897: Workday limited to 11 hours 30 minutes (10 hours on Saturdays), and 40 hours per week.

1734: In the War of the Polish Succession, Russia and Austria finally took Danzig (Gdansk) after a siege which had begun the previous October.

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