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Many languages, including English, contain words (Russianisms) most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are of purely Russian or origin. Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages, and it can be difficult to determine whether they entered English from Russian or, say, Bulgarian. Some other words are borrowed or ...
Poshlost or poshlost' (Russian: по́шлость, IPA: [ˈpoʂləsʲtʲ]) is a Russian word for a particular negative human character trait or man-made thing or idea.It has been cited as an example of a so-called untranslatable word, as there is no single exact one-word English equivalent.
Russian football fans with a gigantic Go Russia! banner, featuring Russian Bear on the background of the Russian flag. Football is the most popular sport in Russia. [238] The Soviet Union national football team became the first European champions by winning Euro 1960, [239] and reached the finals of Euro 1988. [240]
By the mid-1920s, the term had become commonplace in the Soviet Union, used indiscriminately similar to the words "Mister" and "Sir" in English. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the term has still been used as a standard term of address in the Russian Armed Forces and Police of Russia.
This is because the pronunciation of the two letters is significantly different, and Russian ы normally continues Common Slavic *y [ɨ], which was a separate phoneme. The letter щ is conventionally written št in Bulgarian, šč in Russian. This article writes šš' in Russian to reflect the modern pronunciation [ɕɕ].
The English word "hoodie" is copied by Russian clothing shops as "худи" despite there being a Russian word for the same item: "tolstovka" or "tolstovka s kapushonom". Another example is a piece of clothing to wear around one's neck : there is the word "manishka" in Russian, yet modern resellers of imported clothing use the English word ...
Proletkult (Russian: Пролетку́льт, IPA: [prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt]), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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