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Constructive criticism?

This might be a nod to the realization that Russia is not 100% hermetically sealed in a mayo jar at Funk & Wagnall's Port. But I doubt this was done at Putin's approval.

As Frida said in 1982, "I know there's something going on."

 

Is that a repurposed game show set?

 

My only takeaway from that Russian-language clip is that Russian and Spanish seem to share "y" as a conjunction meaning "and."

 

Fox News: Now even less reliable than Russian state TV.

 

From the chyron: Cрочно (srochno) means "urgent," which might be the equivalent of “Breaking News.”

I'm making an effort to learn Cyrillic letters, which an important step but still is far removed from actually learning Russian.

 

I took two semesters of Russian in college because it was the quickest way to satisfy my foreign language requirement for a journalism degree. I did OK the first semester when we were learning the alphabet and a few basic words. Once we got into more complex constructions in the second semester things got real hard, real fast.
I can still write the backward R (pronounced "ya"), still have my old textbook ("Russian for Everybody"; the bookstore would have given me about 50 cents for it, so I figured why not keep it), and with a little effort I can read the Cyrillic and pronounce the words. Unfortunately, 25 years later most of what I learned has escaped the surly bonds of my brain.

 

Sounds like my experience. I took it in ninth grade in a 'distance learning' set-up, and because the teaching school's schedule didn't align with ours, I actually had eight classes when the rest of the school had seven. Teleconference with four schools in a room with a bunch of cameras and TV. I learned some things, but it took us like half the year to get the letters and write them out (including in Russian cursive). We also watched Dr. Zhivago from beginning to end, which took like two weeks.

 

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