'Red Cross' is a story about memory and oblivion. A young football referee, Alexander, Sasha, comes to Minsk to try to rebuild a life broken in half by the will of an indifferent fate. And here he stumbles upon a woman, ninety-one-year-old Tatyana Alekseevna, who survived Stalin’s terror with the hope of asking God a few questions sooner or later.

The textbook covers the basic grammar of the Kyrgyz language and is aimed at developing stable conversational skills. Each lesson introduces the grammatical features of the language and commonly used colloquial and everyday vocabulary, and you can practice the acquired skills in numerous exercises. For the convenience of the reader, tasks aimed at developing speech are available via QR codes:...

This publication is suitable for anyone who wants to learn the Belarusian language. In the manual, you will find the main grammar topics, useful vocabulary for practicing spoken language, exercises for training and answers to them at the end of the publication. The material in the manual is presented as clearly and accessibly as possible, and a large number of visual examples will help you...

Thirteen contemporary writers writing in Russian have created thirteen short stories about the customs and traditions in their cultures: diverse, yet nevertheless based on the same phenomena and processes. Coming of age (for example, through a computer game, as in Dasha Blagova's story), choosing a profession (becoming a shepherd or a vlogger, as in Islam Khanipaev's text), marriage (between...

This novel, which has had a tremendous influence not only on Russian but also on world culture, has been adapted into films numerous times both in Russia and abroad. Prince Nekhlyudov, an intelligent and jaded aesthete and sybarite, is horrified to recognize in court the prostitute accused of poisoning a client as Katyusha Maslova – the pure, gentle girl he had seduced out of boredom years...