:* Belarusian, Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian have the letter й.

:* Belarusian and Russian have the letter ё.

A phoneme may be represented by a multigraph ( sequence of more than one grapheme ), as the digraph sh represents a single sound in English ( and sometimes a single grapheme may represent more than one phoneme, as with the Russian letter я ).

Towards the end of his life, in 1877, Marx wrote a letter to the editor of the Russian paper Otetchestvennye Zapisky, which significantly contained the following disclaimer:

Other changes can be seen, however ; the Russian ruble, for example, changed from RUR to RUB, where the B comes from the third letter in the word " ruble ".

On 3 May 2012, the Renault-Nissan alliance has signed letter of intent to raise its stake in Avtovaz to a majority by taking a majority share of 67. 13 % of a joint venture with the Russian state-controlled company, Russian Technologies, to own 74. 5 % of Avtovaz.

In 1911, help arrived from renowned Russian musicologist and critic Alexander Ossovsky, who wrote a supportive letter to music publisher Boris P. Jurgenson, thus a contract was offered to the composer.

) In Russian, there are also prepositions that consist of a single consonant letter, like k " to ", v " in ", and s " with ".

* December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, stating that Russia should be a successor to collapsing Soviet Union within the United Nations Organization.

The Russian ( and Old East Slavic ) letter г denotes.

Pope Leo XIII began his pontificate with a friendly letter to Tzar Alexander II, in which he reminded the Russian monarch of the millions of Catholics living in his empire, who would like to be good Russian subjects, provided their dignity is respected.

* Russian XVIII-century poet Gavriil Derzhavin avoided the harsh R sound ( and the letter ) in his poem " The Nightingale " in order to render the bird's singing.

* Russian author Sergei Dovlatov did not use two words that start with the same letter in a single sentence, inspired by Perec's experience.

With this title he received a golden badge of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( the Sigma letter ).

Venn diagram that shows the Intersection ( set theory ) | intersections of the Greek alphabet | Greek, ISO basic Latin alphabet | Latin and Russian alphabet | Russian alphabets ( Letter case | upper case letter ( alphabet ) | letter s )

Returning from Russia in 1554, Chancellor brought a detailed description of Moscow and the Russian north, which were largely unknown to Europe, as well as a letter from the Tsar expressing desire to establish trade relations with England.

In a subsequent letter to him, Truman wrote " I think we ought to protest with all vigor ... against the Russian program in Iran.

However, both the Greek letter " β " ( v ) and the Cyrillic " в " ( v ) have been historically Romanized as " b " ( other examples include " Βυζάντιον ", Vizantion → Byzantium ; the Greek name " Βασίλειος ", Vassilios and the Russian " Василий ", Vassily → Basil, the Byzantine title " σεβαστοκράτωρ "/" севастократор " sevastokrator → sebastokrator, etc .).

In a letter to Russell he warned him that Russia " will in due time become a power almost as great as the old Roman Empire ... Germany ought to be strong in order to resist Russian aggression.

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.

The Soviet Embassy is popularly regarded as Russian espionage headquarters.

`` This is Russian money '', said Mervin Griffith-Jones for the attorney general's office.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

) The Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

* White Russian, which adds a dairy ingredient ( usually cream ) to the drink

In Slavic languages, / l, r / as syllabic nuclei are usually the result of the disappearance of,, or ( contrast for example the Russian cognates for vlk and smrt, ' volk ' and ' sm < nowiki >'</ nowiki > ert < nowiki >'</ nowiki >').

For example, the Russian letters Ъ and Ь ( which in writing are only used for modifying the preceding consonant ), and usually also Ы, Й and Ё, are usually omitted.

Kaye usually played a manic, dark-haired, fast-talking Russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls June Allyson or Imogene Coca.

In languages other than English and Russian, figure skating is usually referred to by a name that translates as " artistic skating ".

The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially ; the predominant terms were the camps () and the zone (), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

Both Syrian and Russian hamsters mature quickly and can begin reproducing at a young age ( 4 – 5 wk ), whereas Chinese hamsters will usually begin reproducing at two to three months of age, and Roborovskis at three to four months of age.

Stalin preferred Georgian wine over Russian vodka, but usually ate traditional Russian food.

Church services are conducted predominantly in the Russian language, men and women sit apart, and services are usually quite active – comparable to Pentecostal activities.

These phonemes are contrasting in stressed syllables, but in unstressed syllables the contrast is lost, since both are reduced to the same sound, usually ( for details, see Vowel reduction in Russian ).

In probability theory, the probability P of some event E, denoted, is usually defined in such a way that P satisfies the Kolmogorov axioms, named after the famous Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, which are described below.

If a pectoral cross has been awarded it is usually worn with street clothes in the Russian tradition, but not so often in the Greek tradition.

In Russian, it is usually called бе ́ лый медве ́ дь ( bélyj medvédj, the white bear ), though an older word still in use is ошку ́ й ( Oshkúj, which comes from the Komi oski, " bear ").

Kim ( 1901 ) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo – Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

In the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as in all branches of the British Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Canadian Forces, Turkish Armed Forces, Swedish Armed Forces, Norwegian Armed Forces, and Hellenic Armed Forces, Russian and all former Soviet republic forces, hand salutes are only given when a cover ( protection for the head, usually a hat ) is worn.

A prayer rope ( Greek: κομποσκοίνι, Russian: чётки, Romanian: mătănii, Macedonian and Serbian: бројаница / brojanica, Bulgarian: броеница ) is a loop made up of complex knots, usually out of wool or silk.

On 20 December 1917, the Council of People's Commissars officially established the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage — usually known as the Cheka ( based on the Russian acronym ВЧК ).