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  2. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Disinformation is a loan translation of the Russian dezinformatsiya (дезинформа́ция), [5] [6] [7] derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department. [8] Disinformation was defined in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1952) as "false information with the intention to deceive public opinion". [5] [6]

  3. Unified State Exam - Wikipedia

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    USE answer sheet No. 1 The Unified State Exam ( Russian : Единый государственный экзамен, ЕГЭ , Yedinyy gosudarstvennyy ekzamen, YeGE ) is an exam in Russia . It is a series of exams every student must pass after graduation from high school to enter a university or a professional college.

  4. Russian Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Known records of the Russian language by foreign travelers include a French dictionary-phrasebook of the 16th century in the Latin alphabet and a dictionary-diary of Richard James, mostly in Latin graphics (influenced by the orthography of various Western European languages), but interspersed with letters of the Greek and Russian alphabets.

  5. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    Habēre, on the other hand, is from PIE *gʰabʰ 'to give, to receive', and hence cognate with English give and German geben. [5] Likewise, English much and Spanish mucho look similar and have a similar meaning, but are not cognates: much is from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz < PIE *meǵ-and mucho is from Latin multum < PIE *mel-.

  6. Academic grading in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Even though the grades technically range from "1" to "5", "1" is not very common and is rarely given for academic reasons—in many cases a "1" is given as a result of failure to show up for an exam or to answer any questions. A "2" grade usually means that the student showed little or no knowledge in a subject.

  7. Russian spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Russian spelling alphabet at right (PDF) The Russian spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet (or "phonetic alphabet") for Russian, i.e. a set of names given to the alphabet letters for the purpose of unambiguous verbal spelling. It is used primarily by the Russian army, navy and the police.

  8. File:From Russia with love an overview of Russian.pdf

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  9. False cognate - Wikipedia

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    The term "false cognate" is sometimes misused to refer to false friends, but the two phenomena are distinct. [1] [2] False friends occur when two words in different languages or dialects look similar, but have different meanings. While some false friends are also false cognates, many are genuine cognates (see False friends § Causes). [2]