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ISSUE 46 February 25, 2004
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download our flash movie about MGU Russian proverbs and sayings about Russian language: Язык-стяг, дружину водит Язык телу якорь Сказано - серебро, не сказано - золото Складно бает, да дела не знает. Язык мал, великим человеком ворочает 
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On February, 3,Tuesday the rector of the Moscow State University V.A.Sadovnichii received the delegation of Japan society "Soka Gakkai".
For centuries, Russians have celebrated Maslenitsa by gorging themselves on pancakes and knocking back industrial-sized quantities of vodka. So the weeklong festival marking Orthodox believers' last chance to eat dairy products before Lent might not seem like the best time to promote physical fitness and sportsmanship.
The entire works of Russian writer Boris Pasternak, banned by the Soviet authorities for 30 years, are to be published in his home country.
Pasternak was banned in 1958 from the Union of Soviet Writers after receiving the Nobel prize for literature for his classic love story Doctor Zhivago
Russians often feel slightly embarrassed when trying to cope with their mother tongue's notoriously complicated spelling rules, and recent debates on language reform may well have confused them even more.The controversy around the proposed changes is so huge that Russia's First Lady has become involved in the heated rhetoric.