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  2. Response to sneezing - Wikipedia

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    In Latin America, Salud or Dios te bendiga. In Spain, it can also be Jesús after the first, María after the second, and y José after the third, while in Latin America, particularly in Venezuela and Colombia, it's replaced by salud after the first, dinero after the second, and amor after the third. "To your health" or "God bless you".

  3. List of Russian-language euphemisms for dying - Wikipedia

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    Russian term Literal translation Fisher Richardson Old lady, small and plump преставилась [a] departed this life pass away Old lady, tall and thin богу душу отдает gives her soul to God gave up her soul to God departed this life Ippolit Matveyevich, by the virtue of him being tall, skinny, and prominent

  4. Slavic vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Transcription of Russian is based on the same standard, but deviates from it in order to consistently represent palatalization (always written with a following apostrophe, e.g. l', n', t', v') and the phoneme /j/ (always written j), both of which are spelled in multiple ways in Cyrillic. The following indicates how to convert between the two:

  5. Healthcare in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare in Russia, [a] or the Russian Federation, [b] is provided by the state through the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, and regulated through the Ministry of Health. [1] The Constitution of the Russian Federation has provided all citizens the right to free healthcare since 1993.

  6. Soviet phraseology - Wikipedia

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    The topic of this article is not limited to the Russian language, since this phraseology also permeated regional languages in the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Russian was the official language of inter-nationality communication in the Soviet Union, and was declared official language of the state in 1990, [ 1 ] therefore it was the major source ...

  7. Timeline of Russian history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia .

  8. Old Church Slavonic - Wikipedia

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    The Russian recension emerged in the 1000s based on the earlier Eastern Bulgarian recension, from which it differed slightly. The earliest manuscript to contain Russian elements is the Ostromir Gospel of 1056–1057, which exemplifies the beginning of a Russianized Church Slavonic that gradually spread to liturgical and chancery documents. [123]

  9. Russian Biographical Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the first volume of the Russian Biographical Dictionary Portrait of A. A. Polovtsov by Boris Kustodiev. The Russian Biographical Dictionary (RBD; Russian: Русский биографический словарь) [a] is a Russian-language biographical dictionary published by the Imperial Russian Historical Society and edited by a collective with Alexander Polovtsov as the ...