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1. "Kindergarten" for Senior Citizens: Everyone’s a kid at Christmastime, and, beginning this holiday season, pensioners in Kostroma Oblast can be kids year-round at Russia’s first “kindergarten” for pensioners.; Tags: charity, babushkas, elderly

2. 11 Reasons to Be Grateful for Russia: Russians may not celebrate Thanksgiving, but we can still be thankful for Russia; Tags: st. petersburg, Moscow, metro, samovar, tea, winter, blini, russian language, poetry, soviet union, literature, babushkas, nature, dacha, railroad, train

3. Someone Else's Granny: Even when you do a good deed, you need to pay attention, or you may chart a new road to humility.; Tags: babushkas, village, church, rural

4. 6 Things Russian Babushkas Disapprove Of: What comes to mind when you think of a Russian national icon? Vodka, matryoshkas, bears? Fyodor Dostoyevsky? Alla Pugacheva? Cheburashka? Surprisingly few people, including Russians themselves, mention babushkas, the omnipresent grandmothers in head scarves. Yet their influence is huge. Red Square huge. Katyusha rocket huge. So it pays to know how to please them...; Tags: babushkas, culture, étiquette; By Yelena McManaman

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