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Rus dictionary of a few thousand words, but of ... I don't know, native, indigenous, something like that, words; don't even remember the...

Sarcasm is to satire what poaching with dynamite is to fly fishing; and is therefore perhaps less apt to foment simmering hostility. Witty...

Perhaps assuetude and mansuetude have fallen into desuetude.

Pinchaque, 8. Sorry, I haven't read the link about the Olympics, but I gather it says something about Team GB being not exactly identical...

I have often thought it curious that UK (presumably) athletes at the Olympics are identified as "GB." Great Britain, as a couple of...

R dictionary, but that is more substantial than is ideal for my current purpose; good, of course, for reference. What I am after now is a...

Thanks. Unfortunately, I was at T3. BCIA FAQ has actually replied to me, so there is an off chance I might be able to squeeze an inquiry...

I lost something a little while back at T3 BCIA. At the airport website, it says login to the online lost and found system, but offers no...

I thought as much. Nice to have it confirmed by someone who knows.

Inattentively watching TV today, 9/7, in western Siberia while making a cup of tea, I chanced upon an interview with Dmitriy Rogozin,...

An update. ...

Bugger! The comma and the hyphen after, respectively, "competition" and "Jurmala," should of course swap places. Where are good...

Anyone who has been to Latvia, or who is from there: What light can you shed on how the Russian popular music festival - promoted in Russia...

Yeah I did check out the wiki entry; a good starting point, but not definitive, especially when, as in Russia, but of course by no means...

Dean Reed, a US expat pop singer/actor, who lived in South America, then Europe, mainly in the eastern bloc, from his early twenties, gave...