For the 42nd time a Scottish delegation came to Saint Petersburg for educational and cultural exchange, visiting St Petersburg's education centre, the local parliament, and other important places of Russian culture http://spb.itar-tass.com/c344/636367.html
31 January 2013
30 January 2013
Dog Barbos and Supercross (1961, Soviet Union)
One of the most popular Soviet comedy directors Леонид Гайдай would have been 90yo today. Apart from the fact that his movies are incredibly enjoyable, they can be used as a great Russian language learning tool.
This particular short movie (10min) is in the international language of humour and a speaker of any language can understand it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYX5D3VjMzQ
29 January 2013
Rabbie Burns in Russian
A bit late for Burns. Actually we had a Russian Burns' night with lots of his poems in Russian. Burns was always popular in Soviet times and we learned about him at school.
There are a couple of famous songs with Burns lyrics in our popular culture, one of which is in this film. This is a classic Russian comedy called Служебный роман
The song "Моей душе покоя нет" is here at the very beginning of part 2 Part 2 Youtube
You can also see and hear the original Burns' lyrics here For the sake o' Somebody
20 January 2013
Epiphany in Russia. 19th January
Do you know what Epiphany is? The Julian calendar (as was used in Russia till 1918) being 13 days ahead of Gregorian (as used by the West), the 19th January is celebrated as Epiphany in the Orthodox Church.
Watch the coverage in the link below.
First Russian Channel news report on epiphany
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