The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

Russia has introduced a new Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation, created at St. Petersburg State University. The dictionary was first launched in April of this year ...

The number of words in the most comprehensive Russian dictionary is just a third of the number of entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, but what does it say about their real numbers? The first ...

Arguably, the word “to drink” has more synonyms than any other in Russian. “To yank,” “to nip,” “to cut into,” “to knock back.” – all these verbs, and many others, are used in Russian to refer to the ...