Я вас любил...

Перевод...

I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet

To die down thoroughly within my soul;

But let it not dismay you any longer;

I have no wish to cause you any sorrow.

I loved you wordlessly, without a hope,

By shyness tortured, or by jealousy.

I loved you with such tenderness and candor

And pray God grants you to be loved that way again.

Вот вам всем линк на аудио-запись этого прекрасного стихотворения Пушкина. 

Lectures on the Russian alphabet

A 15 minute lecture (in two parts) on the consonant-vowel system in Russian. 


Watch these for Wednesday's class!

Flash Forum this Friday on Pussy Riot

Cooking in Kiev...

While in Kiev this August, I filmed a week's worth of shows for a cooking program, Любим готовить! (We Love to Cook). The show airs soon, but this week they're posting the recipes on the show's Facebook page and blog. Here's a link to the Facebook articles. Maybe it will work! If it doesn't, you can see the posts on the Russian Studies Facebook page. (While you're there, LIKE us!)

The GOCAPC Russian School

Anyone interested in working with this new, Russian-language oriented charter school in Palm Coast (about half an hour from here; a real center of Russian speakers) should contact me. Many significant opportunities, especially for anyone interested in education.

Here's some information about the school:

Global Outreach Charter Academy of Palm Coast (GOCAPC) is a school where students from many countries and various cultural backgrounds can experience a safe, student-centered environment, with immersion in a bilingual program that prepares participants for advanced studies at the high school and college levels. GOCAPC is a place where parents and teachers collaborate to ensure that all students meet high expectations in their personal and academic growth. GOCAPC's primary bilingual immersion focus is English-Russian, but is expanding to include English-Chinese, English-Spanish and English-Portuguese.

Bald-Hairy

This is just funny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald%E2%80%93hairy

Russian Studies Spring Extravaganza

Go check out the great photos from the Spring Extravaganza. While there, "like" the Russian Studies page!

Native Russian Flowers

Baby's Breath
- often grown in border plantings and for use in fresh or dried floral arrangements.
- the most popular variety is white, but they do grow in pink and lilac.
- resistant to most insects and diseases
- blooms and flowers from late spring to early fall

Siberian Iris
- native to Eastern Russia
- blooms white or violet flowers in the early summer
- low maintannce and has few disease and insect problems

Bergenia
- native to southern Siberia
- is a tea plant
- blooms in mid winter to early spring
- can survive temperatures as low as negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit and the occasional drought
- only grows about 2 feet in height, but its leaves are as big as a cabbage leaf

Rhododendron
- can grow to over 10 feet tall
- produces clusters of beel-shaped lilac flowers as well as different shades of pink and purple
- flowers bloom from April through June

Deanna WOtursky unit 10

The Russian Orthodox Church is the most powerful and important actor in Russian civil society today. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) re-emerged as an informal institution with a demand for religious freedom in the Gorbachev era under Glasnost after the suppression of the church to the state under the Soviets. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the church then emerged as a formal structure under the Moscow Patriarchate with informal factions. The Church is separated into three main areas of thought traditionalism, fundamentalism, and liberalism. The Russian Orthodox Church as a political entity favors a non-western traditionalist view on domestic and international politics. Although traditionalism is the norm, liberal aspects pervade the church-state relationship. The Moscow Patriarchate and the church serve as vital elements in political decision making through their role in civil society by promoting a nationalistic approach to church-state relations.

Deanna Wotursky unit 10

Russia exports large amounts of all types of natural resources, but their biggest money maker is oil. According to the article, “Russia is now the world’s largest oil producer, pumping about 10 million barrels of oil a day.” Russia has openly condemned the west for sanctioning Iran oil, but they mustn’t have realized they would benefit from Iran’s losses. This is simply Russia accidently stepping into a zero-sum game. The economic sanction the west plans to impose on the Iranian oil industry has led to increased gas prices and inflation for importers already, but has done the opposite for Russia as the main exporter. The Russian pipelines leave countless trade possibilities because they run to both Europe and Asia. The economic prosperity of Russia has helped bolster the image of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in the eyes of the Russian nation. The competitive authoritarian nature of the Russian regime opposes most involvement in the internal affairs of sovereign countries, and therefore condemns the west for using coercive diplomacy to get what they want. If Russia didn’t or did know these sanctions would benefit them economically, and Putin politically I feel Russia would continue to stand behind their decision and stance on Iranian economic sanctions. The petroleum sanction on Iran has already affected the global economy and it doesn’t even take effect until the summer. The increased barrel prices on gas have caused inflation of gas prices in return inflation of consumer goods for the United States. This isn’t the case in Russia, when oil prices go up the Russian nation benefits because, “The extra money has helped to further subsidize domestic energy consumption, tamping down inflation” also, the article goes on to say that “In the United States when oil prices go up , the president’s ratings go down. In Russia, it’s the opposite.” The current political unrest in Russia towards the Putin regime has deplored doubts on the legitimacy of the goals of the regime. These doubts are relinquished when the bigger goals of the regime are met to better the state, like economic prosperity. Lastly, Iranian and Russian oil have very similar components which will spark trade interest s with countries who will adopt the sanctions against Iran in the summer. Trade agreements can strengthen state to state relations if the trade agreement is positive for both parties. The pipelines will not only serve as way to trade with more countries but will lower the cost for Russia to produce and deliver oil as well.