Posts in July 2007

Chess and Politics

Posted by Josefina

How many games of chess did Gari Kasparov have to play to beat Karpov? Maybe 30? Maybe 40? No! More!

And why suddenly did he switch from chess to politics?

Hear him talk about it with Steve Paulson on the Wisconsin Public Radio show “To the Best of our Knowledge.”

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Radio Liberty and the Echo of Moscow

Posted by Josefina

Russia’s independent media has been muffled by the Kremlin in recent years, but a few frantic voices are still trickling through. Радио Свобода and Эхо Москвы cover some more risky topics.

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Словарь

Posted by Josefina

A good Russian-English and English-Russian online dictionary can be easily accessed at

словарь

Make sure you кликать the box next to перевод to get a translation and not a Russian definition.

If you don’t have a Russian font available, type something random in and hit enter. At the results page you can now see a little green word on the left that says клавиатура. If you click on that it will give you a keyboard and you can start looking things up.

This dictionary often will list idioms and phrases relating to the word you’re looking up. But it doesn’t always give examples for all the words.

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