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🧿Tell a Russian their plans sound great and watch them knock on the nearest table. You haven't been rude. You've just come close to jinxing it.
The word is сглазить, and it means to spoil something by speaking about it too confidently before it happens. The rule isn't about compliments as such: praise anything that's already done and you'll get a simple thank you. What makes people uneasy is enthusiasm about the future. "You're definitely going to get that job" earns a wince, a knock on wood, or a quick не сглазь. The same applies to announcing a pregnancy early, celebrating before exam results, or admiring how healthy a child looks.
Someone will often spit three times over their left shoulder, which looks alarming and is completely routine.
The safe phrases are тьфу-тьфу-тьфу and не буду загадывать, roughly "I won't tempt fate". And if you forget and praise someone's plans anyway, nobody is offended. They'll knock on the table for you and carry on.
| 2 |  +1🇷🇺Today is our National Unity Day, and the name is the point. The holiday marks 1612, when a volunteer army raised in Nizhny Novgorod drove foreign troops out of Moscow. That force wasn’t one people: Russians, Tatars, Mordvins, Chuvash and others joined it, funded by merchants and townspeople rather than by any state. The country was held together by people who had little in common except the decision to act together.
Which fits modern Russia rather well. More than 190 peoples live here and around 100 languages are spoken between them, 35 of them official in their own republics. Dagestan alone has over thirty languages in an area smaller than Scotland. Russian is the common ground across all of it, and that’s the real reason to learn it: you don’t get access to one culture, you get access to the conversation between all of them.🇷🇺 | 330 |
| 3 |  Well, happy Halloween 👻 | 391 |
| 4 |  +1Yesse, our student from the Netherlands, cooked olivier for his girlfriend Nastya this week, using the recipe from our own textbook "Russia, My Love". He tried to keep it a surprise, but she spotted the ingredients and guessed immediately. As he told us, he can't keep secrets from her.
Olivier is one of those dishes where every family has its own version. Some use chicken, some sausage, some skip the onion entirely, and everyone is convinced theirs is the proper one. Nastya loved Yesse's, and told him it was a lovely thing to do.
Which is roughly the point. Cooking someone's national dish from a textbook, in their language, is a kind of fluency that doesn't show up on any exam. Well done, Yesse.🇷🇺 | 423 |
| 5 |  +7Russian aesthetics and fashion by Ralph Lauren 😍 | 427 |
| 6 |  +1The banya is part of the Russian cultural code, and it isn't really about the heat. It's about what the heat permits. In there nobody has a job title, a phone, or anything to hide behind, and conversations happen that would be impossible anywhere else. A culture that invents a phrase for this has clearly been doing it a while.
The practice is older than most of what we think of as Russian tradition. Villages built the banya before the house itself, children were born in it, and foreign travellers wrote about it with alarm for centuries, especially the part where people leave the steam and roll in snow. What keeps it alive is that it resisted becoming a spa. The ordinary banya is still a plain wooden room where friends sit for hours, go quiet, drink tea, and come out having said more to each other than they intended. | 383 |
| 7 |  ⚡️RUSSIA WILL HOST THE 2030 WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The event will take place in Moscow in 2030 and will serve as a qualifying stage for the 2032 Olympic Games.
The Russian Weightlifting Federation has become the first national sports federation for an Olympic discipline—since 2022—to successfully bring a high-level official tournament back to the country following a long hiatus.
Russia’s bid presented the best long-term program, one that will provide a significant boost to both the media presence and the infrastructure of the sport.
🏆 The standard of event organization in our country, along with the work of the federation, has received high praise from the international community. | 358 |
| 8 |  8 ways to say “a little” in Russian sounds like an exaggeration until you try to pick one. English leans on the same phrase for almost everything; Russian makes you choose, and the choice says something about you.
Немного is the neutral default, safe anywhere. Чуть-чуть is small and slightly charming, the one you’d use asking for more cake. Немножко softens it further with a diminutive.
Самую малость and чуточку are warmer still, almost tender. Слегка means lightly rather than in small quantity, as in slightly tired. Капельку, a tiny drop, is for liquids and for pleading.
And с гулькин нос, “the size of a pigeon’s nose”, means so little it’s almost insulting. | 408 |
| 9 |  Sacha Baron Cohen has said that Borat didn't start in Kazakhstan at all. On a trip to Russia in 1994 he met a doctor from Arkhangelsk, and that man became the prototype for the character the whole world later knew. One conversation with a provincial physician, thirty years ago, in a city most people couldn't find on a map. | 381 |
| 10 |  🇷🇺Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, South Korea, Italy. Six countries, one group, and by now they're holding conversations in Russian with each other. The next beginner course starts on 26 October.
It's an A1 course from absolute zero, no alphabet needed beforehand, classes Monday to Thursday from 10am to 2pm with native teachers in small groups. If you're not in Moscow, the online beginner group starts the same day, so you can join from anywhere.
What surprises people is the group itself. Everyone arrives with a different native language, so Russian quickly becomes the only thing you have in common, and you start using it on each other. The trial lesson is free if you'd rather see it first. Sign up here! | 487 |
| 11 |  +5Funny pics of the week 🪁 | 616 |
| 12 |  🎂Today is a special day for our centre! It is the birthday of our beloved teacher Olga Borisovna Antoshkina!
Olga Borisovna is not only a wonderful educator but also the author of the amazing “Russia — My Love” teaching series for Russian as a Foreign Language, which helps international students from all over the world discover the Russian language and culture from scratch.
To mark the occasion, international students recorded a touching video greeting! Watch how warmly and lovingly they speak the Russian language—a language they mastered thanks to Olga Borisovna!
Happy birthday, dear Teacher! We wish you inspiration, talented students, and continued creative success! You can learn more about the textbook and order it on the official “Russia — My Love” website. | 504 |
| 13 |  +4New vocabulary 🇷🇺🇷🇺 | 653 |
| 14 |  🖊️"How do I learn Russian cursive?" comes up as soon as someone sees a handwritten note and realises it looks nothing like the alphabet they studied. The first thing worth knowing is that this isn't optional decoration. Russians write in cursive by default, every school teaches it, and printed letterforms are almost never used by hand.
Start by learning to read it before you try to write it. Find a handwritten sample, sit with it, and work out which shapes correspond to which letters. The trouble spots are predictable: и, ш, м, л and т all dissolve into rows of identical humps, which is why a word like «лишишь» can look like a heartbeat monitor.
Then write by hand daily, in small amounts. Ten minutes copying real sentences beats an hour of drilling single letters, because cursive is about how letters join, not how they look alone. Children's copybooks, called прописи, are cheap and genuinely the fastest route.. | 619 |
| 15 |  🐐«Любовь зла, полюбишь и козла» is a funny Russian proverb about how love can make us overlook someone’s flaws.
The literal meaning is something like “Love is blind, you might even fall for a goat.” The “goat” is not really about the animal. It is a humorous way of saying that when you fall in love, even a person with plenty of flaws can suddenly seem wonderful.
Russians usually say this phrase jokingly, when someone falls for a person others don’t quite understand. It can be teasing, affectionate, or slightly ironic depending on the situation. | 562 |
| 16 |  Have you ever noticed that you sound much better in your head than you do in real life?🧐
When you’re learning a foreign language, you can sometimes imagine yourself speaking fluently, using the right words and forming perfect sentences. Then you actually start talking, and suddenly there are pauses, missing words, strange grammar and a lot of «uhm… »
It happens because speaking in your head is much easier than speaking out loud. Your brain already knows what you want to say, so it fills in the gaps and makes everything sound smoother. But real conversation requires you to find the words, build the sentence and pronounce everything at the same time.
So if your spoken language doesn’t sound as good as it does in your head, it doesn’t mean you’re bad at the language. Your speaking skills just need time to catch up with the version of you that already exists in your head.
🇷🇺 Join the new group for beginners to feel more confident in yourself and your Russian! We start on September 28th! Click here to sign up! | 542 |
| 17 |  Most people begin learning Russian by opening a grammar table and closing it again a week later. Here’s an order that works better.
1. The alphabet, three days, nothing else. Not words yet. Just until you can read a street sign slowly.
2. Read everything you see, badly. Shop names, metro stations, food labels. Understanding nothing is fine. You’re teaching your eyes that Cyrillic isn’t decoration.
3. Whole phrases before rules. «Меня зовут», «я не понимаю», «сколько стоит». Don’t ask why the endings look like that yet.
4. Pick your first 100 words from your own life. Textbooks give you «aunt» and «pencil». Yours should match why you’re actually learning.
5. Only now touch the cases. Start with two, not six. Six at once is what makes people quit.
6. Speak far earlier than feels comfortable. Three broken sentences with a real person beats an hour of flashcards.
Step six is the one nobody manages alone, which is where a teacher earns their keep. Ours do this every week with people starting from zero, so if you’d rather not guess at the order yourself, come and start with us. | 675 |
| 18 |  Peterhof sits on the Gulf of Finland, about 30 kilometres west of St Petersburg, and it was Peter the Great’s answer to Versailles. Built from 1714, it does something Versailles doesn’t: the Grand Cascade below the palace runs on no pumps at all. Water arrives by gravity through a canal system engineered three hundred years ago, and it has been working ever since.
There are around 150 fountains across the park, and the ones people remember are the ones that misbehave. Peter installed trick fountains that soak you when you step on the wrong stone, and they still catch visitors out. Come in mid May for the ceremonial switching on, when the water is turned on for the season and crowds gather to watch it start.
Go once if you can. It was almost completely destroyed in the war and rebuilt from photographs and memory over decades, which means what you’re looking at is not only Peter’s ambition but the stubbornness of everyone who put it back. | 706 |
| 19 |  +123 August 1943 marks the end of the Battle of Kursk. Both sides knew it was coming: the front line had left a huge Soviet-held bulge pushing westwards, some 250 kilometres wide, and it was the obvious place for a German offensive. So instead of striking first, Soviet command chose to dig in, building eight successive defensive belts, thousands of kilometres of trenches, and minefields laid several times denser than standard.
Around 300,000 civilians built those defences, mostly women and teenagers from the surrounding villages, digging by hand through the spring. Some of them were still there when the offensive began on 5 July. The fighting lasted fifty days, and by the end the Soviet side had lost well over 800,000 men killed, wounded or missing, more in under two months than Britain lost in the entire war. Kursk itself, and the towns around it, were left with barely a roof standing.
That's why the date carries what it carries. Before Kursk the initiative on the Eastern Front had shifted back and forth. After it never returned to the German side. Nearly every Russian family has someone in those two months, a name, a photograph, a letter that stopped arriving, and that's what people are thinking about today, rather than the maps and the tank counts. | 632 |
| 20 |  Here's a small thing that unsettles English speakers early on: in the Russian past tense, the verb tells you the gender of whoever did it.
Take читать, to read. Drop the -ть, add an ending:
читал — a man read читала — a woman read читало — an it read читали — they read, or a group of any kind
So «я читал» and «я читала» are both "I was reading." The difference is who's speaking. The good news is that this is easier than what English does, not harder. Russian past tense has no я/ты/он conjugation at all — you don't change the verb for person. One form covers я, ты and он. Compare that to present tense, where every pronoun gets its own ending.
Two things worth knowing.
Вы always takes the plural form, even when you're speaking to one person politely. «Вы читали?» — whether that's a room full of people or your professor.And gender agreement follows the noun, not the meaning. Письмо пришло, because письмо is neuter. Книга лежала на столе, because книга is feminine. The object doesn't have a gender in any real sense — the word does.
Small test: if a woman says «я устала» and a man says «я устал», they're both saying "I'm tired." Which one would you use? | 496 |
