BOB GARFIELD: Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that will require popular Russian bloggers to register themselves with the government. Stripped of their anonymity, ...

Can you think of a word in English that can’t fully be translated into another language? We know that Inuit people have several different words for “snow” because it is prevalent and each word means a ...

Be careful: not all Russian words that sound familiar mean what you would expect them to. The classic movie Brilliantovaya Ruka is not (as this student once thought) a movie about a man with a ...

Motherland or fatherland? How would Russians attribute their native country? Well, English language would be envious of the many expressions that we use in a patriotic mood. The Russian national ...

A good Russian accent, such as the one Viggo Mortensen uses as Nikolai Luzhov in 2007’s “Eastern Promises,” brings an air of authenticity and drama to a performance. A bad one, however, like Arnold ...