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  2. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, some common suffixes are -ов (-ov), -ев (-yev), meaning "belonging to" or "of the clan of/descendant of", e.g. Petrov = of the clan of/descendant of Petr (Peter), usually used for patronymic surnames—or -ский (-sky), an adjectival form, meaning "associated with" and usually used for toponymic surnames.

  3. Russian forms of addressing - Wikipedia

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    The system of Russian forms of addressing is used in Russian languages to indicate relative social status and the degree of respect between speakers. Typical language for this includes using certain parts of a person's full name, name suffixes , and honorific plural , as well as various titles and ranks.

  4. Stella (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Stella, a supporting character in Totally Spies! in which she is the mother of super spy Clover; Stella, a character in the 2006 film Over the Hedge; Stella, one of the main characters in the series Trulli Tales; Stella, the guardian of the Sparkle Theater in Princess Peach: Showtime! Stella the Star Fairy, a character from the Rainbow Magic ...

  5. 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:

  6. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщи́на) (from Russian ded, "grandfather", Russian army slang equivalent of "gramps", meaning soldiers in their third or fourth half-year of conscription, + suffix -shchina – order, rule, or regime; hence "rule of the grandfathers") A system of hazing in the Soviet and Russian armies.

  7. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote: "The [names of the] letters that make up the Slavonic alphabet don't represent a meaning at all. Аз , буки , веди , глаголь , добро etc. are individual words, chosen just for their initial sound".

  8. Donald Trump Jr. admitted a decade ago that many family ... - AOL

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    The comment has taken on new meaning since Trump's election. During a New York real estate conference in 2008, President Donald Trump's eldest son admitted that a lot of the family's assets come ...

  9. Sasha (name) - Wikipedia

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    Sasha is a name which originated among Slavic peoples from Eastern and Southern Europe [citation needed] as the shortened version of Alexander and Alexandra.It is also used as a surname, although very rarely.