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Retired professor of Russian at the George Washington University, DC: Russian language pedagogy, Russian media. Armchair interests in media production, historical linguistics. Curator: Russian Song Translation Database: https://tinyurl.com/a6efhfjj

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In this video: No Kings, No AI, No Paid Demonstrators

18.10.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ะŸะ•ะกะะฏ ะกะขะะะžะ’ะ˜ะขะกะฏ ะ‘ะซะ›ะฌะฎ...

10.05.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

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26.04.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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12.04.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signs of the Times. Saturday, DC

07.04.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signs of the Times. Saturday, DC

07.04.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signs of the Times. Saturday, DC

07.04.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signs of the Times. Saturday, DC

07.04.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signs of the Times. Saturday, DC

07.04.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signs of the Times. Saturday, DC

07.04.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NEXT TIME THEY'LL GET IT RIGHT!

26.03.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Uniforms, parades, martial music!

19.03.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I guaranree you that Russian cyber operations against us will get stronger.

03.03.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As long as we're renaming stuff...

22.02.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We can argue whether Spanish is foreign or an ethnic minority language for the U.S. But thatโ€™s hardly a reason to throw out what in most cases is an accurate word for languages spoken in other countries but not among large populations in oneโ€™s own.

19.02.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œForeignโ€ is what Roman Jakobson would call a shifter, whose meaning depends on the speaker or the addressee. (For Jakobson, shifters were the pronouns I, you, and we.) Russian is unflinchingly foreign to over 99% of people living in the U.S, but not to people in Russia.

19.02.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure. Certain languages are, in fact, โ€œworldโ€ languages: they are used across large swaths of the globe: the 19th century languages of colonization, plus Chinese, Arabic, and so on. But Swedish? Afrikaans? Welsh? Navajo?! (So โ€œunworldโ€ that it served as the basis for our World War II codes.)

19.02.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WORLD LANGUAGES? Can we stop with this โ€œworld languagesโ€ business? I assume that โ€œforeignโ€ languages became โ€œworldโ€ languages because people have negative associations with foreignness. That's unfortunate. I am drawn to foreign languages precisely because they are *foreign*.

19.02.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DC protests the Trump-Musk coup

17.02.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DC demonstration against the coup

17.02.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Against Trump and Musk's coup

17.02.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anti Trump-Musk demonstration in DC

17.02.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Connecticut Avenue, Cleveland Park, DC, right before a hailstorm.

17.02.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the cover of the first issue of action comics features superman lifting a green car Alt: the cover of the first issue of action comics features superman lifting a green car

He HATES this car.

16.02.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1113    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 93    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Elon Musk posted these two tweets on the same day

17.02.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2876    ๐Ÿ” 887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 257    ๐Ÿ“Œ 79

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