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One curious thing about the alphabet is that it includes the letters І, Ѣ, Ѳ, Ѵ which had been phased out of the Russian alphabet following the orthography reform of 1918 and were …

To tell the truth, I found much more interesting another article referenced from that, the one on craft vs. instinct in construction http://m.nautil.us/issue/8/home/the-termite-and…

As if it helped Sun (in the long run, I mean).

If you were a native Russian, your would look out not for malice but rather for negligence and indifference on part of the authorities. Which is why I, for one, think the right que…

Ah, Karinthy! I remember doing a production of his ´Refund´ [ http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/170806254 ] in high school theatre many years ago; we had lots of fun.

Montaigne's Essays; and I'm reading (Bunin's Russian translation of) the Song of Hiawatha for my son at bedtime.

I fear so much. As if OED subscription at two hundred quid per annum wasn't bad enough.

That's a good question. Loeb's primary strength (apart from its exceptional typographics) is that it puts original texts side by side with translations, making it easier for a read…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

And Mari, and Mordvinic, and Komi, and Udmurt, and Karelian, and Veps, and Vodic (though the last two are, sadly, more or less moribund).

Bottom line: native speakers of English don't grok morphology. When exposed to it, the best among them get fascinated and keen, the worst are cast into despair and ennui. But hey, …

What you're trying to do here is to subordinate god to laws of logic. But, from the theist point of view, everything is god's creation. The world, essentially, is a system of laws,…

Further links in English: • http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/19/towr-m19.html • http://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/18/ando-koolhaas-kuma-moscow-s... • http://motherboard.vice.com…

Oh, he seems to understand it well enough. Iraq '03 and Libya '11 have been excellent examples of 21st Century Power. (I'm omitting Serbia '99, as it was, formally speaking, 20th c…

Won't it try to rotate about one's hand when one swipes up or down?

Re. Russian media: I wonder, why their view (extremely biased, no doubt) could be of any concern to HN readers who are predominantly English-speaking and get much of their informat…

A science popularization site featuring researchers giving video talks about their respective areas of study. (Russian readers of HN might happen to know the site postnauka.ru, of …

I have to confess that my knowledge of the history of weapons is rudimentary, so I gladly accede to your point; my previous remark only concerned Soviet geopolitics as it stood in …

Minor correction: in 1947, when the AK was developed, World Wide Socialist Revolution, as you put it, was not on the agenda for quite some time. The idea of Soviet autarky (“establ…

Btw., am I the only one to think it rather knavish that the word “materialism” which originally signified a school of thought emphasizing the physicality of the world and all thing…

Right, but it works the other way round, too: if your police thinks YOUR competitors (and this may mean, well, gangs) pay better, nothing would prevent it from turning over to prot…

You might find interesting Anna Wierzbicka's essay on her own experience of bilingualism ( http://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/pdfs/double-life.... ). Wierzbicka is a Polish…