Maria Ivanova, your Russian teacher

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Why do most Russians have diminutive names?

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Why Russian has no articles (and what it uses instead!)

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Advanced Russian: How to talk about frost?

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The 6 Russian cases explained

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Advanced Russian: How to define something as lying, sitting or standing?

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Advanced Russian: How to say something is ‘your own’?