viernes, 3 de septiembre de 2010

Russia Cannot Be Understood by the Mind Alone… or Can It?

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The infamous line “Russia cannot be understood by the mind alone” is one of those must-know Russian phrases that comes up pretty much constantly in many situations. It lends itself happily to a collection of jokes and funny images that, like the photo above, seem to confirm that Russia is indeed a land of unfathomable mystery where even the screw-ups cannot be fully comprehended by foreigners. The sign in the photo, posted on the entrance to an Adidas outlet reads “Enter through the Nike store”.
Many people in Russia nowadays lament on the state of Russian language. They point to its general decline, especially amongst «молодёжь» [young people], to «деградация средств массовой информации» [degradation of the mass media] and abundance of foreign influences. Leer más

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