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Did you know ...

• the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution?
• in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from Russian speakers and Gagauz?
• due to a bureaucratic error Sir Curtis Keeble was placed in charge of 2000 Russian refugees despite not speaking fluent Russian?
• the Church Slavonic word for "nativity scene" has come to denote "the den of depravity" in modern Russian?
• the expression Children of Lieutenant Schmidt has become a Russian cliché for con men who use false pretenses in order to extract money from the victims?
• the translation of The Lord of the Rings by Andrey Kistyakovsky and Vladimir Muravyov is the first official Russian language translation of the novel?
• the first poet in the Russian language, Symeon of Polotsk, was ethnically Belarusian?
• although Russian is the most widely used second language in Ukraine, it has no official status in the country?
• Firestar's Quest, a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian?
• Anna Marly originally wrote Chant des Partisans, the song that became the anthem of the French Resistance following the prohibition of La Marseillaise, in Russian?
• Soviet literature declared Russian the "world language of internationalism", denouncing French as the "language of fancy courtiers" and English as the "jargon of traders"?
• forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union was dubbed malenkij robot (corrupted Russian for "a little work") in Hungary?
• William Morfill was the first professor of Russian in Britain?
• The Gift, the last novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian, was initially poorly received and partially rejected?
• The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death?
• IBM's Automatic Language Translator machines used by the US Air Force had optical disks that stored thousands of Russian-to-English translations?