Моя Россия

These free intermediate Russian lessons are hosted by Roxana Burkhanova, a recent graduate of Moscow State University. She discusses modern life, history, sociology, and politics in simplified Russian. Each text is glossed for vocabulary and cultural meaning and comes with a related grammar lesson. Roxana served as SRAS Moscow Student Coordinator in 2015-2016 and developed many ideas for this series in via her conversations with SRAS students.

Off to Petersburg, Russia’s Cultural Capital: Моя Россия Blog

Below, Tajik blogger Roxana Burkhanova describes, in Russian, the place of St. Petersburg in Russian culture. She discusses the city’s history as well as its literary heritage, its nightlife, and even how people from Petersburg speak their own, slightly different dialect of Russian. The text was originally written in 2015 and thus references times before […]

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