Swobodin v Brně

How did not I pay attention to that during all this time? An only-1-MB GTK-based offline dictionary!

StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2 and data is availbale from the Website. I started to find out about it downloading both Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and the Russian Словарь Даля. Those data files […]

Если крикнет рать святая:
“Кинь ты Русь, Живи в раю!”-
Я скажу: “Не надо рая,
Дайте родину мою”.
Сергей Есенин

 
If a horde of priests shout:
“Throw Russia, Live in paradise!”
I will say: “No need to paradise,
Give me my patry”.

Serguej Essenin

Ivan IV (August 25, 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of tsar. His long reign saw the conquest of Tartary and Siberia and subsequent transformation of Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional state.
Du to his exploits, Ivan was called Groznyj(Гро́зный) which was been wrongly […]

Just for challenge
 
Не плюй в колодец - захочешь ещё воды напиться
Don’t spit on the well, you may want to drink the water again.
 
Слово не воробей - вылетит, не поймаешь
Word is not a bird: once it flys, you can’t catch it.
 
I got’em, Aygul

I could guess that people used to consider work as a torture thanks to … word etymology!
In fact, in the Middle Age, there used to be a torture instrument called “tripalium“, which consists of attaching the hands and feet of the condemned to 4 horses in order to quarter him.
Very cruel! but what does […]

Added an online Latin to Cyrillic convertor for writing Russian messages; you can use it as well, надеюсь, вам понравится:-)
My host is still amazing me! I thought that dl() function doesn’t work, but I realized that it’s enough to upload a “home compiled” extensions to work; I know, that may be insecure, but at […]