The Talk Russian Blog

One of the unique country features of Russia is its vast territory covers both Europe and Asia. I have never travelled as far as Russia’s Far East, however, reports suggest that part of the country has far more trade or cultural links with Japan than London, for example. On my recent trip to Moscow though, I spotted more and more things adopted from the West, which weren’t there a decade ago.

Take this Moscow sightseeing bus, for example. It bears a ...

Language is an evolving phenomenon and my recent trip to Moscow has proved just that. Over the past few years I have read a few articles on how Russian has been massively influenced by the increasing dominance of everything English and how simple English words are slowly ousting perfectly good Russian ones. Take “cleaning”, for example, it has come into Russian as “клининг”, replacing “уборка” and duly finding its place in the modern Russian spelling dictionary.

I made further discoveries ...