Can you think of a word in English that can’t fully be translated into another language? We know that Inuit people have several different words for “snow” because it is prevalent and each word means a ...

Siberians store documents in 'multifora'. Far Eastern residents drive 'prul', while Muscovites keep complaining on 'cheloveyniks'. How to understand Russians from different regions? Linguists ...

BOB GARFIELD: Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that will require popular Russian bloggers to register themselves with the government. Stripped of their anonymity, ...

Be careful: not all Russian words that sound familiar mean what you would expect them to. The classic movie Brilliantovaya Ruka is not (as this student once thought) a movie about a man with a ...