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23 juillet 2014

Telegraph and TV channel criticised over crash reports

A Russian TV channel accused of acting as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin is facing an investigation by Britain’s broadcasting watchdog for its coverage of the destruction of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet. The Daily Telegraph was separately facing...
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22 juillet 2014

Robots Among Us

Robots Among Us
The term “robot” was introduced by Czech playwright Karel Capek in his play about humanlike machines. In Czech the original word “robota” means grunt work or hard labor. When we were kids, we all dreamed of a time in future, when robots will live among...
17 juillet 2014

One Born Every Minute

Лохануться: to make a stupid mistake, slang I haven’t checked The Word’s Worth mailbox in a few weeks … let’s see … lots of questions about language and current events. For example, “If France can outlaw English words, why can’t Russia?” signed by Ivan...
16 juillet 2014

Fierce Battles Continue in Eastern Ukraine

Border tensions rise after Ukrainian officials said they suspected Russia had carried out the airstrike that killed civilians in Snizhne on Tuesday. Earlier in the week, a Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down near the Russian border, and new...
15 juillet 2014

A subway derails in Moscow

MOSCOW — A morning commute ended in darkness, smoke and mayhem for passengers on the Moscow metro on Tuesday when a train derailed underground, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 100 others. Witnesses described being suddenly heaved out...
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7 juillet 2014

Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister Under Gorbachev, Is Dead at 86

Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who as Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s foreign minister helped hone the “new thinking,” foreign and domestic, that transformed and ultimately rent the Soviet Union, then led his native Georgia through its turbulent start as an independent...
6 juillet 2014

To Be A Russian

For the past several months, through a series of photographic portraits, I set out to explore the unique and often strange ways people in Russia think and feel about the motherland. I know, from growing up in the former Soviet Union and studying the region’s...
2 juillet 2014

How Tatiana Becomes Tanya – Russian Names Explained

I recently changed jobs. And my new boss asked me – whether I prefer to be called Tatiana or Tanya. He noticed that I use Tanya for this blog and Tatiana at work. I replied that I prefer Tatiana for work, since I know that having several versions of name...
1 juillet 2014

Retour sur une légende

Retour sur une légende
La dernière édition de « Balalike it ! » est dédiée à Viktor Tsoï. Le légendaire musicien soviétique est synonyme de son groupe, Kino. RBTH vous propose de découvrir ses cinq chansons les plus connues. Vos'miklassinitsa (Lycéenne, 1982). Viktor Tsoï avait...
29 juin 2014

Philippe Pégorier est directeur d’Alstom Russie

Philippe Pégorier est directeur d’Alstom Russie et a récemment été élu président de l’Association of European Businesses (AEB). Bordelais ayant vécu tour à tour en Russie et en Ukraine depuis les années 1980, il constitue à la fois un véritable pilier...
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