May 01, 2010 Seeing Red By Mikhail Ivanov How to find the "red price" when haggling for goods and services.
March 01, 2010 A Country of Poets By Mikhail Ivanov The role of poets in Russia has always stretched beyond the realms of literature. We look at poetry in everyday speech...
January 01, 2010 Tender Insults By Mikhail Ivanov There is nothing like the tender, inoffensive insult to patch up strained relations...
November 01, 2009 Marital Squabbles By Mikhail Ivanov Where we examine the linguistic conventions of sparring with one's spouse.
September 01, 2009 Milky Ways By Mikhail Ivanov Fallen in the milk lately? Everyone does. Apparently some more than others. Like Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for example.
July 01, 2009 Gogol 101 By Mikhail Ivanov In which columnist Mikhail Ivanov impresses upon his son the importance of reading Gogol, sharing several important Gogolisms along the way.
May 01, 2009 Singing in the Rain By Mikhail Ivanov Forecasting the weather in Russia is a national sport. And a fertile ground for linguistic growth.
March 01, 2009 825 Yards for Barack By Mikhail Ivanov The financial crisis offers a pretext to return to a consideration of "despicable metal" and how it is influencing Russian speech.
January 01, 2009 Soaping Your Way By Mikhail Ivanov This issue's Survival Russian column looks at the clean (and less than so) metaphors that arise from soap...
November 01, 2008 Mauvaix phone By Mikhail Ivanov Cell phones have introduced some new and challenging lingo to the Russian lexicon.
September 01, 2008 Knees Made for Dancing By Mikhail Ivanov Where we consider the role of knees in the Russian language. Very important, just ask Nikita Sergeyevich...
July 01, 2008 Mustache Wise By Mikhail Ivanov Whenever I "hide a smile in my mustache," a certain old friend from across the ocean feels uneasy and nervous...
