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Russian roulette as depicted in the 1925 movie The Night Club. Russian roulette (Russian: Русская рулетка, romanized: Russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body (of the opponent or themselves), and pulls the trigger.
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The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
Kha, from Elisabeth Boehm's alphabet book Kha , Khe , Xe or Ha (Х х; italics: Х х ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . It looks the same as the Latin letter X (X x X x ), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms, and was derived from the Greek letter Chi , which also bears a resemblance to both the Latin X and Kha.
Tse, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921) Tse (Ц ц; italics: Ц ц or Ц ц ; italics: Ц ц ), also known as Ce , is a letter of the Cyrillic script . It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar affricate /t͡s/ , similar but not identical to the pronunciation of zz in "pi zz a" or ts in "ca ts" .
Faux Cyrillic, pseudo-Cyrillic, pseudo-Russian [1] or faux Russian typography is the use of Cyrillic letters in Latin text, usually to evoke the Soviet Union or Russia, though it may be used in other contexts as well.
Ef, from Karion Istomin's 1694 alphabet book. The Cyrillic letter Ef was derived from the Greek letter Phi (Φ φ). It merged with and eliminated the letter Fita (Ѳ) in the Russian alphabet in 1918. The name of Ef in the Early Cyrillic alphabet is фрьтъ (fr̥tŭ or frĭtŭ), in later Church Slavonic and Russian form it became фертъ ...