A retro rally commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War has started in Moscow.

🔻Owners of Soviet and foreign cars from the 1950s-1980s gathered at Poklonnaya Hill, from where the motorcade began. 

🔻The route includes memorable sites in the capital, including those where anti-aircraft installations were located.

Source: @rt_russian

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Воскресенье же, Наташа! Не работаем в эти дни, а гладим меня!
It's Sunday, Natasha! We don't work on these days, but we're petting me!
• Гладить (кого/что? Accus. кота)
[gla-dit' ka-ta]
To stroke/pet a cat

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- Вот видео, как я провожу воскресенье.
- Это же фото.
- Это видео.
- Here's a video of how I'm spending my Sunday.
- That's a photo.
- It's a video.

Товарищи, всем прекрасного воскресенья!

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This is what professional bribery of a judge at a cat show looks like!

• Подкуп
[pot-kup]
Bribery

🔻It comes from the verb (imperf.) подкупать [pаt-ku-pat'] to bribe.

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• Походочка (femin.noun)
[pa-kho-dach-ka]
A manner of walking

🔻This noun is a diminutive form from походка.

▶️Походка/поступь

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• Вали отсюда! (⚠️rude!)
[va-li at-syu-da]
Go away from here!

▶️Сваливать/свалить
▶️Отсюда

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• Крипота (femin.noun)
  [kri-pa-ta]

🔻This is a scary, frightening, and horrible thing, used in modern Russian slang. 

🔻The noun comes from the English adjective creepy.

🔻Don't confuse it with the feminine noun крипта [kri-pta], which is a short slang variant for криптовалюта [krip-ta-va-lu-ta] cryptocurrency.

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Ranking cat sounds.
Which one's the cutest from your point of view?

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A NON-linguistic post:

🌝Просто хорошего настроения всем!

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Good morning! Happy Saturday! ❤️

🧡A spring evening on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg

Video: andrei_mikhailov

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😀 In a few years time the stress will probably be on the first syllable: (он/она) звОнит but not as the standard variant: звонИт.

🔻At least, that's what the Russian Academy of Sciences (РАН) believes. 

🔻According to experts, this is a natural evolution of the Russian language: in all verbs ending in -ИТЬ (3rd person, sg, 2nd conjugation), the stress has been gradually shifting to the first syllable over the last 100 years: the verb вклЮчит (he switches on) used to be pronounced with the stress on the second syllable: включИт.

📎 The comments section of this news story exploded with outrage: people are ridiculing the innovation, speculating which official couldn't remember the correct version and decided to change the rule itself.

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😎How to say 'Call me!' in Russian:

• Позвоните мне, пожалуйста!
• Позвони мне, пожалуйста!
• Набери меня!
• Звякни мне!

Please like this post ❤️ It's not hard for you, but it means a lot to me :)

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Ну что, ещё разок хардкору, товарищи?

🔻The SECOND conjugation in Russian includes verbs ending (in infinitive) in -ИТЬ

❗Though the following verbs do NOT end in -ИТЬ, they are exceptions and all belong to the SECOND conjugation:

• Гнать (to drive, to chase)
• Держать (to hold, kееp)
• Дышать (to breathe)
• Слышать (to hear)
• Обидеть (to offend, hurt)
• Видеть (to see)
• Зависеть (to depend)
• Терпеть (to endure, to tolerate)
• Вертеть (to twist, to turn)
• Ненавидеть (to hate)
• Смотреть (to watch)

🔻Present Tense endings (Indicative Mood) (the endings are applied to the verb stem):

1. I ... -У/-Ю
2. You (singular) ... -ИШЬ
3. (S)he/it ... -ИТ
4. We ... -ИМ
5. You (plural/polite) ... -ИТЕ
6. They ... -АТ/-ЯТ 

🔻Let's take the SECOND conjugation verb Звонить (to phone) (see the video):

1. Я звон+Ю
2. Ты звон+ИШЬ
3. Он/она/оно звон+ИТ
4. Мы звон+ИМ
5. Вы звон+ИТЕ
6. Они звон+ЯТ

🤗 Practice makes рerfect! Try conjugating various verbs, creating sentences, and stay strong, comrades!

▶️The FIRST conjugation
▶️Conversation on the phone

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For months now, folk singer Nadezhda Kadysheva has been filling massive concert halls, and her young fans are following her across the country like rock star groupies!

🔻The internet is flooded with videos from her concerts. Something incredible is happening at her performances. The audience enthusiastically sings along to her hits. Young fans, even men, wearing kokoshniks (traditional Russian headdresses), are dancing in the aisles.

🔻This is a unique phenomenon. A few years ago, Kadysheva's audience was mainly comprised of pensioners. Now, she's wildly popular! Tickets are sold out months in advance!

🔻Some critics see this as a kind of fashion trend for all things Russian.

What do you think about it?

#news
#brief_and_interesting

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Talking about IQ...

The USSR created a table to test your observation skills.  It's called "The Engaging Table." Find the numbers 1 through 90 in sequence on this table.

🔻If you find them in 5-10 minutes, you have exceptional observation skills.
10-15 minutes – good.
15-20 minutes – average.
20-25 minutes – satisfactory.

😉The bravest among you can try this in Russian!  Hint: 
▶️Cardinal numerals 1-20
▶️Cardinal numerals 20-100

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In the updated IQ ranking of different countries' populations, Russia continues to confidently hold the 6th place. Belarus has risen to 16th place.

▶️Ordinal numerals

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👋Good spring morning to you all!

🔢 Трёхцветный (masc.adj.)
[tryokh-tsvet-nyj]
Tricolour, three-coloured, Calico

🔻It's built from three parts:
Трёх (Gen. from три) + цвет + the adjectival suffix -ный

🔢 Двухцветный (masc.adj.)
   [dvukh-tsvet-nyj] 
   Two-coloured, bicolour

🔻Двух (Gen. два) + цвет + -ный

🔢 Одноцветный (masc.adj.)
     [ad-na-tsvet-nyj] 
     One-coloured, unicolour

🔻Одно (один) + цвет + -ный

📎 You'll see far more tricolour female cats than males. And in many cultures, including Russia, a tricolour cat is believed to bring good luck to the home. 

❓А Ваш котик одноцветный, двухцветный или трёхцветный?

▶️Цвета (Revision)

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Это могли быть мы, но ты занят(а) своим русским.
It could be us but you are busy with studying your Russian.

😴Доброй ночи, товарищи!

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April 23rd, 1857 marked a key moment in Russian history: Emperor Alexander II officially confirmed the double-headed eagle as the state emblem.

🔻The eagle, with its two heads signifying rule over both East and West, became a powerful visual representation of the empire's vast territories and ambitions.

🔻While the eagle had appeared in various forms under previous Tsars – including Ivan the Terrible, Mikhail Fyodorovich, Peter I, Paul I, Alexander I, and Nicholas I, each making modifications – Alexander II's reign saw a significant heraldic reform, solidifying the eagle's design and its enduring place as a symbol of Imperial Russia.

🔻In 1917 the Bolsheviks, after seizing power in October 1917, completely abolished the imperial symbols, including the double-headed eagle.

🔻It was not officially revived until the adoption of a new coat of arms for the Russian Federation in 1993. However, this version was significantly different from the Imperial coat of arms.

🔻The 1993 version itself was later replaced in 2000 with a slightly modified version which continues to be used to this day.

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The Animated Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Lopukhina – a painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1797

🔻The portrait of Maria Ivanovna Lopukhina is not only a masterpiece of art but also the source of numerous legends.

🔻The young Countess was known for her aristocratic beauty. However, her life was cut short: she died of consumption at the age of 24.

🔻There are many versions of the causes of her early death. Some link the tragedy to her father's mystical pursuits, others to the fashion for light muslin dresses that offered no protection from the cold and contributed to illness.

🔻After Maria's death, mystical rumors arose surrounding the portrait. 

🔻It was said that the Countess's spirit was trapped within the painting, and that it was dangerous for young women to look at it.

🔻However, the staff of the Tretyakov Gallery, where the portrait is kept, have not recorded any such incidents.

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Специалисты считают, что просыпаться в 5 утра полезно для здоровья.
Специалисты:
Some experts suggest that waking up at 5 am can be beneficial for health.
Experts:

• Специалист (специалисты) (masc.noun)
[spi-tsy-a-list (spi-tsy-a-lis-ty)]
An expert(s), a proficient person

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👋Приветствую!

• ПЕРЕзарядить батарейки (perf.)
[pi-ri-za-ri-dit' ba-ta-rey-ki]

Meanings:

🔢 Literally: to recharge a device's battery

🔢 Figuratively: to rest and rejuvenate oneself, to regain energy and motivation after a period of exhaustion or stress

🔻Prefix ПЕРЕ- means REdo something/ do something again:
• ПЕРЕписать = to REwrite
• ПЕРЕчитать = to REread

• Устали? Время перезарядить батарейки!
Got tired? It's time to recharge batteries!

▶️Other meanings of prefix ПЕРЕ-

🎧🗣👇

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💜 Illumination of the Sea Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in St. Petersburg

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Princess Victoria Alice Elena Louise Beatrice of Hesse and by Rhine (the future Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II from 1894), at a costume ball in 1892.

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The average Russian's plan for the year is like:

❓What comes after Easter? Шашлыки!

▶️Months

▶️What's the problem with August zucchini

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• Ремонтные работы (plural)
[ri-mont-ny-ye ra-bo-ty]
Repair work
or
• Наносить макияж
[na-na-sit' ma-ki-yazh]
To apply makeup

Revise also:
▶️Макияж/косметика

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🥚🛐💜 🔈🎬 Here's the 20th Easter episode of our "Russia-US Dialogue"!

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Watch this week:

01:45 - The US-China Trade War. What are the positive aspects of this. And what has Trump managed to do?
09:45 - Israel's impending strike on Iran
15:50 - The Netanyahu Factor. 43 and his 75 years, and of Israel's 76 existence, he does the same thing
23:40 - Europe's attempts to rewrite history are becoming more and more obvious and absurd. Phantom pains of Kaja Kallas' greatness. And what did Marshal Zhukov foresee?
30:35 - Moldova has become a hub for pro-Ukrainian terrorists and saboteurs
34:00 - Declassified FBI Documents: Ukraine Planned to Kill Trump

📱📱 The link for YouTube, friends.

📹 The previous episode of the show is here.

Happy Easter. friend to you and your families! 🥚🕊️✝️


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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Встречать рассвет (imperf., 1st conjugation)
  [fstri-chat' ras-svet]
  To meet the sunrise

Singular:
Я встреча+Ю
Ты встреча+ЕШЬ
Он(а) встреча+ЕТ

Plural:
Мы встреча+ЕМ
Вы встреча+ЕТЕ
Они встреча+ЮТ

• Я встречаю рассвет (где?) на Ай-Петри в Крыму.
I'm meeting the sunrise on the top of Ai-Petri, Crimea

Video: xschvvx

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𝑴𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔!

𝑾𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓! 
𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆, 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔.
𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒍, 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔. 

𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏!

🕊Христос воскрес(е)!
  [Khris-tos vas-kres(e)]
  Christ is risen!

🕊Воистину воскрес(е)
  [va-is-ti-nu vas-kres(e)]
  In truth is He risen!

𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 💓

🌳🌳🌳

🙏🙏🙏Some Russian Easter mood for you:

• Красить яйца (imperf.)
[kra-sit' yay-tsa]
To colour/dye eggs

❓А вы красите яйца на Пасху?

Video: AI vikki_topneuro

#AI
#holidays
#Easter

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🎤 This is how Russians hear this song

One of Moscow's decorations is a 5-meter-high Easter egg located near the exit of Krasnopresnenskaya metro station.

Video:📷moscow_official

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#Moscow
#holidays

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Тысячи лет спустя мы вернулись к тому же языку.
Thousands years later, we've returned to the same language.

• тот же = that very / the same

🔻For the most determined language learners who are here not only for cat videos😉❤️‍🔥:

🔻Declension of the demonstrative pronoun, masculine gender тот (that) (from▶️этот (this)):

Nomin.: тот (язык)
Gen.: того (языка)
Dat.: тому (языку)
Accus.: тот (язык)
Instr.: тем (языком)
Prep.: (о) том (языке)

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👋Бодрого утрa всем!
 A cheerful morning to you all!

• Боевой стиль кунг фу
   Kung fu fighting style

#morning

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Еaster decorations in the Moscow Metro, (Trubnaya station)

Video:📷moscow_official

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#Moscow_metro
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🇷🇺 This is a well-known and much-loved Russian folk Cossack song:

⚡️Ой, да не вечер, да не вечер.
Oh, it's not evening, it's not evening.

⚡️Мне малым мало спалось.
I was sleeping so little time,

⚡️Мне малым мало спалось,
I was sleeping so little time,

⚡️Ой да во сне привиделось...
Oh, and in a dream I saw...

⚡️Мне малым мало спалось,
I was sleeping so little time,

⚡️Ой да во сне привиделось...
Oh, and in a dream I saw...

• Малым мало = очень мало (very little)
• Привиделось = приснилось (to have a dream)

📎 The soul just opens up, following the melodic ripples of this authentically Russian song performed by folk group KRAPIVA. Can you feel it?

#sing_it_ 🎵
#Russian_culture
#Russianbeauties

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🔢🔢🔢 Уборка / Cleaning (perfective aspect verbs):

1. Заправить постель/кровать
[za-pra-vit' pas-tel'/kra-vat']
To make the bed

2. Покормить котят
[pa-kar-mit' ka-tyat]
To feed the kittens

3. Постирать бельё
[pa-sti-rat' bi-l'yo]
To do the laundry

4. Помыть посуду
[pa-myt' pa-su-du]
To wash the dishes

5. Вынести мусор
[vy-nis-ti mu-sar]
To take out the rubbish

6. Помыть полы
    [pa-myt' pa-ly]
To mop the floors

7. Пропылесосить ковёр
[pra-py-li-so-sit' ka-vyor]
To vacuum the carpet

🎧🗣👇

#365_marathon
#survive_in_Russia

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Весеннего настроения всем! (Dative)
  [vi-sen'-ni-va na-stra-ye-ni-ya]
  Spring mood to you all!

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An online video demonstrating how to dye Easter eggs with red wine has become viral. 

The only thing: keep the wine in the pot, not in yourself!

🔻Here's how:

⚡️Pour any red wine into a pot with red eggs.

⚡️Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

⚡️Then cool and put the pot with the eggs and wine into the fridge (not freezer!) for the night.

⚡️In the morning, place them on paper towels to dry.

⚡️The result is matte, shimmering Easter eggs with an unusual color.

🐣Happy Easter to all!

#holidays
#Easter

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- Что он делает?
- Стирает себе память о том, что он поел пять минут назад, чтобы поесть ещё раз.
- What's he doing?
- He's erasing his memory of eating five minutes ago so he can eat again.
▶️Оther meanings of 'ещё'

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• Клевать (imperf.,1st conjugation)
[kli-vat]

🔻This Russian verb has a peck of meanings, all stemming from the basic idea of pecking, though:

🔢 To peck with a beak: 

• Курица клевала зерно.
A chicken pecked at the grain.

🔢 To bite (about fish), to take the bait (also figuratively):

• Рыба клюёт на приманку.
Fish bite at bait.

🔢 To nod off/to drowse:

• Клевать носом
[kli-vat' no-sam]
SLT: to peck with the nose

• Смотри! Наш кот так устал, что клюёт носом!
Look! Our cat is so tired, he's nodding off!

🔢 Also colloquial to annoy someone relentlessly, to pester, to drive someone crazy with persistent nagging

• Клевать мозг(и)
[kll-vat' maz-gi]
SLT: To peck one's brains

• Пока им не начинают клевать мозг, они не шевелятся.
They won't lift a finger until they're pestered.

🔻Its synonym is▶️Выносить мозг

🎧🗣👇

#phraseology
#useful_vocabulary
#verbs

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🩷The annual Privolzhskaya Fiesta hot air balloon festival in Nizhny Novgorod is scheduled for August 13-17, 2025

#around_Russia

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A bear politely knocked on the window of a Kamchatka resort dining room for breakfast. 

That's Russia, baby:)

#news

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Всё зависит от того, что ты услышал, а не то, что кто-то сказал.
It all depends on what you heard, not what someone said.

• Факт (факты) (masc.noun)
[fahkt (fahk-ty)]
Fact (facts)

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🔻Construction spanned from 1696 to 1719, resulting in a breathtaking structure on Nizhny Novgorod's Rozhdestvenskaya Street. Discover its rich history and stunning details!

📍Geoposition: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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Когда у двуногого весеннее обострение, но ты пока терпишь.
When a two-legged (creature) has spring fever, and you're enduring it.
• Весеннее обострение (neut.noun)
[vi-se-ni-ye a-bas-tre-ni-ye]
Spring madness, spring fever, springtime exacerbation

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Хватит (3rd person sg verb)
[khva-tit]
To suffice, to be enough

🔻The word хватит is an independent part of speech derived from the perfective aspect verb хватить [khva-tit']

🔻It is often used in impersonal sentences:

🔢 with a noun in the genitive case:

• (Мне) хватит (чего?) поцелуев.
(I have had) enough (of what?) kisses.

🔢 with a verb in the infinitive form of the imperfective aspect following it:

• Хватит целовать меня!
Stop kissing me!

🔢 as a request or order to stop something:

• Может, хватит?
Maybe it's enough?

💢 Also (colloquial):

• С тебя хватит (поцелуев)!
[s ti-bya khva-tit]
You've had enough (kisses)!

📎 All examples in the post are based on the video content. No animals were harmed.

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Боже! Пропала всего одна котлета! А орёт, как будто у неё свинью украли!
Good heavens! Just one cutlet is missing! And she's yelling like someone stole her pig!

• Орать (imperf., colloquial)
[a-rat']
To yell, to scream, to shout

BTW орать is a FIRST conjugation verb. Can you conjugate it?
🗝
Я ору
Ты орёшь
Он/она/оно орёт
Мы орём
Вы орёте
Они орут

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👋Приветствую, товарищи! Ну что, по хардкору?

🔻There are two conjugation types of Russian verbs: FIRST and SECOND. To know the conjugation type is important to choose to right ending of the verb.

🔻The FIRST conjugation in Russian encompasses the vast majority of verbs ending (in infinitive) in -ЕТЬ, -АТЬ, -ОТЬ, -УТЬ.

❗Though ending in -ИТЬ, брить (to shave) and стелить (to cover) are exceptions and belong to the FIRST conjugation verbs.

🔻Present Tense endings (Indicative Mood) (the endings are applied to the verb stem):

1. I ... -У, -Ю
2. You (singular) ... -ЕШЬ/-ЁШЬ
3. (S)he/it ... -ЕТ/-ЁТ
4. We ... -ЕМ/-ЁМ
5. You (plural/polite) ... - EТЕ/-ЁТЕ
6. They ... -УТ/ЮТ 

🔻Let's take the FIRST conjugation verb читать (to read) (see the video):

1. Я чита+ю
2. Ты чита+ешь
3. Он/она/оно чита+ет
4. Мы чита+ем
5. Вы чита+ете
6. Они чита+ют

📎 Practice makes рerfect! Try conjugating various verbs, creating sentences, and stay strong, comrades!

The post about the SECOND conjugation type is coming.

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The Animated Portrait "Girl with Berries" by Nikolai Yefimovich Rachkov, 1879

Video: AI national neurographic

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In early April 1945, fierce fighting raged in Königsberg. When the city fell, severely wounded hoppo Hans was found in a stream.

🔻According to legend, the soldiers initially wanted to "execute him according to martial law," claiming that this "huge pig" resembled Göring.

🔻However, the command prevented the execution of the "rare animal" and entrusted him to the care of zootechnician Vladimir Petrovich Polonsky.

🔻According to surviving archival data, Hans's treatment began with simple measures: he was given water, milk, and beets. However, due to his declining appetite, Polonsky resorted to an unconventional method – he offered the hippo 4 litres of vodka, which unexpectedly stimulated his appetite. 

🔻Polonsky remained constantly by the animal's side, and after 51 days, Hans had fully recovered.

Managed to save the hippopotamus.  Without leaving him for 21 days, after a month and 19 days, I achieved his complete recovery and am now training the hippopotamus – riding the hippopotamus through the park.

🔻Hans lived in the zoo until 1950, left no offspring, but he remains forever on the emblem of the Kaliningrad Zoo, as a symbol of true human compassion, generosity, and kindness.

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👋Всех с понедельником, товарищи!

Деловитый 🆚️ Деловой 🆚️ Дельный

🔢 Деловитый (masc.adj.)
[di-la-vi-tyj]
Businesslike, efficient, practical

🔻This adjective describes someone who is businesslike, efficient, and practical in their actions.

• Он был очень деловитый и быстро решил проблему.
He was very businesslike and quickly solved the problem.

🔢 Деловой (masc.adj.)
[di-la-voy]
Business, professional, official

🔻This adjective refers to something related to business or professional matters.

• У него деловой костюм и причёска.
He's wearing a business suit and hairstyle.

🔢 Дельный (masc.adj.)
[del'-nyj]
Sensible, practical, useful

🔻This adjective describes something practical, and useful in terms of actions, decisions.

• Он дал дельный совет.
He gave useful advice.

❓Is▶️малыш in the video ... ?
А. деловитый
Б. деловой
В. дельный

🎧🗣👇 Make up your own examples!

#tricky_words
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🇷🇺 Russian girs are like ...

Video:📷This_Norway_Guy

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Time cover, April 1961

🚀 By April 12th, new space stickers appeared on the rockets.
Which one do you like most?

1. Никто кроме нас 1961-2025!
Nobody but us 1961-2025!

2. Космонавт за рулём!
Cosmonaut at the wheel!

3. 1961 можем повторить!
We can repeat 1961!

4. Спасибо Юре за космическую победу!
Thank you Yuri for the space victory!

5. Русские своих на МКС не бросают!
Russians don't abandon their own on the ISS!

6. Плевать на всех, стыкуюсь где хочу!
Screw everyone, I'm docking wherever I want!

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🚀C Днём Космонавтики!
Happy Cosmonautics Day! 

🔻On April 12th, we celebrate Yuri Gagarin's historic first human spaceflight in 1961. A day to remember humanity's giant leap into the cosmos.

Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и приумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её.
Ю.А. Гагарин
Having orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let's preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it. 
Yuri A. Gagarin

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🚀 Belka and Strelka, the first Soviet cosmonaut dogs, were spotted strolling at VDNKh.

This is how Zen tells Moscow residents and guests about the opening of its interactive exhibition “Space is Calling” at VDNKh. Here you can hear the sound of Saturn, touch the surface of the Moon and Venus, see rare space phenomena, and also get to the International Space Station through a virtual telescope.

The exhibition will run until June 8, 2025.

Artificial intelligence brought the beloved characters of the Soviet cartoon "The Kid and Carlson" back to life.

🔻The famous Soviet cartoon 'Малыш и Карлсон' (The Kid and Carlson), based on Astrid Lindgren's classic children's books, was first released in 1968.

🔻This charming adaptation captured the hearts of generations and remains incredibly popular in Russia and beyond, a testament to its enduring appeal and brilliant animation. 

⏺Watch the original cartoon on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/B2OJiA2iENs?feature=shared

Video: AI

Прекрасных выходных, товарищи!

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🥳Today in Russia is:

• День Домашних Животных
National Pet Day

🔻The main goal of the event is to raise awareness of the plight of animals in shelters and to provide assistance to organizations involved in the treatment and protection of various kinds of domestic animals.

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A Siberian woman with visiting bear cubs, 1900s

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• Как с голодного края
[kak s ga-lod-na-va kra-ya]
Like from a hungry edge/border.

🔻This idiom doesn't have a direct equivalent, but here are several options: starving, desperately hungry, really, really hungry

▶️Голод - не тётка

▶️Слона бы съел!

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Video ⚠️ only! (Filthy language!)

The men were calmly ice fishing until, at dawn, an… Arctic nuclear icebreaker, the Arktika, sailed up to them.

🔻The fishermen watched with childlike wonder as the enormous ship headed straight for the tent where their slightly tipsy friend was sleeping.

🔻Luckily, the icebreaker changed course in time, and Lysy (Baldy) in the tent was lucky—it ended without incident.

• Лысый всё проспал!
The bald man slept everything away!

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Writing the hard sign (ъ) in cursive can be challenging, but not for us, right? 

🔻Let's watch the video, print out the practice sheet and, shedding tears of despair, practise and move on.

❓Which other letters of the Russian alphabet make you overwhelmingly want to chuck the study of Russian overboard?

📎 file is in the comments

▶️Сursive letters

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😏Приветствую!
What if you are not relatives but have the same name or surname?

🔢 Тёзка (тёзки)
[tyos-ka (tyos-ki)]
Namesake(s)

🔻This word refers to a person who shares the same given name (first name) as you. 

🔢 Однофамилец (однофамильцы)
[ad-na-fa-mi-lits (ad-na-fa-mil'-tsy)]
Namesake(s), homonym(s)

🔻This word describes a person who shares the same surname (last name) as you. It doesn't imply any other connection beyond sharing a family name. It's simply someone with the same last name, regardless of first name.

🔢 Полный тёзка
[pol-nyj tyos-ka]
Сomplete namesake

🔻This is someone who shares both your given name and surname. 

• Иван Иванов? Мы с Вами полные тёзки!
Ivan Ivanov? We're complete namesakes!

🎧🗣👇

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👋Welcome, newbies!
And
Добрый вечер, мои любимые старые товарищи!

Just a few words to help you figure out how it all works here.

⚡️First of all, what is with all the cats here?
"This channel is basically just a secret [Russian] operation to share cat videos" (by our devoted subscriber).
Actually, watching a funny cat video (related to the topic of the post) before studying the language stuff in the post, will definitely relieve your pain from the study. Believe me it works.

⚡️Use hashtags to find similar posts. Navigation around the channel is in the comments 💬 to this post.

⚡️For absolute beginners:
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for some materials which can come in handy in your study.

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💚 Lotuses in the Volga Delta, Astrakhan Oblast

Photo: vk Eduard Gordeev

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A Magadan fisherman has been unable to retrieve his SUV for three days: a Nissan X-Trail, stuck on a breaking piece of ice, is attempting to drift back to its homeland – Japan.

🔻Despite two warnings from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the men enthusiastically continued fishing in Gertner Bay.

🔻The consequences were not long in coming: after a few hours, the ice began to crack faster, and the floes started carrying away the vehicles of the most stubborn fishermen.

🔻Rescuers spent two days "fishing out" the lost souls. The Nissan X-Trail remains unretrieved: it has drifted eight kilometers towards the Three Brothers Islands.

That's Russia, baby :)

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Donald Trump with his wife in Leningrad (St Petersburg), 1987

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Так себе у вас весна, если честно.
Your spring is so-so, to be honest.

• Если честно,
[yes-li ches-na]
SLT: If honeslty
Honestly, to be honest,

▶️Так себе

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• То-сё, пятое-десятое
[to syo pya-ta-ye di-sya-ta-ye]
SLT: this, that, fifth, tenth

🔻This colloquial phrase doesn't have a direct, single-word English equivalent, but its meaning is easily grasped.

Meaning:
It's used instead of listing various objects, circumstances, matters, or a rambling, disorganized account of something. 

🔻It is similar to saying this and that and a whole bunch of other stuff in English.

🔻The parts of this colloquial phrase have equal meanings and can be used separately:

• То-сё = то да сё
=
• Пятое-десятое

Example (see the video):
• Мои планы на день: то-сё, пятое-десятое.
My plans for the day: this and that and a whole bunch of other stuff.

🎧🗣👇 A у Вас какие планы на день?

▶️Future actions

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🧡💛💚 Polar lights

Video: (?)

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Did you know that bison live in Russia?

🔻The wood bison бизон (бизоны) [bi-zon (bi-zo-ny)] , a contemporary of the mammoth, is an endangered species and is included in the International Red List.

🔻Wood bison were introduced to the territory of Russia from Canada, specifically the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), in 2006 for the purpose of reintroduction to their historical homeland.

🔻Their current population numbers 380 individuals, and they are kept in the wild, in specialized breeding centers, and in 3 zoos across the country. Globally, their population is around 10,000.

Video: tygen.n

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❤️ Как сказать "Я люблю тебя", не говоря этого?
How can I say "I love you" without saying it?

• Кроме любви твоей, мне нету моря. (B. Маяковский)
Apart from your love, there's nothing else for me.

• У меня на сердце без тебя метель. (С. Есенин)
A blizzard rages in my heart without you.

• Целую Вас до дна души. (М. Цветаева)
I kiss you to the very depths of your soul.

• Если бы ты музыкой была, я тебя бы слушал неотрывно. (А. Ахматова)
If you were music, I would listen incessantly.

• Будь из всех исключением. Не исчезай. (А. Вознесенский)
Be the exception to all the rules. Don't disappear.

• Нежнее нежного лицо твоё. (О. Мандельштам)
Your face is more tender than tenderness itself.

• У тебя не должно быть дождей никогда. Пусть они идут у меня. (Р. Рождественский)
You should never have any rain. Let it all fall on me.

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A random sign on a fence somewhere in Russia:

Если погода за окном не радует - вспомни, что климат в России рассчитан, прежде всего, на уничтожение неприятеля.
If the weather outside isn't pleasing, remember that Russian climate appeared, first and foremost, to destroy the enemy.

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Снимать сливки (imperf.)
[sni-mat' slif-ki]
SLT: To remove/take off the cream

Meaning: 
This idiom means to take the best or most profitable part of something, leaving the less desirable parts behind. 

English Equivalent:
To get the best of something, to skim the cream

Example:
• Владельцы кафе, удачно выбрав локацию и концепцию, сняли сливки, собирая огромные чеки.
The café owners, having successfully chosen the location and concept, skimmed the cream, raking in huge checks.

🔻Also:
• Сливки общества (plural noun)
[slif-ki op-shchis-tva]
The top of the society, social elite

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