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Bookmate was created in 2007 by three former employees of the Russian edition of Look At Me - programmers Andrei Zotov and Egor Khmelev and designer Kirill Ten. In its first version, Bookmate was an aggregator and search engine for bookstores, offering the user the best price. In 2009, the creators relaunched it as a book reading app with ...
samizdat. Literal meaning. self-publishing. Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, lit. 'self-publishing') was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader.
The three-finger salute ( Serbian: поздрав са три прста, romanized : pozdrav sa tri prsta ); or three fingers, ( Serbian: три прста, romanized : tri prsta ), commonly known as the Serbian salute ( Serbian: српски поздрав, romanized : srpski pozdrav ), is a salute which the thumb, index and middle finger are ...
Russia–Serbia relations ( Russian: Российско-сербские отношения, Serbian: Руско-српски односи, Rusko-srpski odnosi) are the bilateral foreign relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia. The countries established official diplomatic relations as the Russian Empire and ...
Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union . They are used commonly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and to a lesser ...
The first aviation pioneer in Serbia was Lieutenant Kosta Miletić (1874–1953), trained as a balloon pilot at the Technical Aeronautical School in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 1901 to 1902. [3] [4] On the recommendation of Miletić, the Royal Serbian Army posed messenger pigeon stations and bought two free spherical and one tied kite ...
Slavic name suffixes. A Slavic name suffix is a common way of forming patronymics, family names, and pet names in the Slavic languages. Many, if not most, Slavic last names are formed by adding possessive and other suffixes to given names and other words. Most Slavic surnames have suffixes which are found in varying degrees over the different ...
According to the Russian folklorist E. G. Kagarov, the Domovoy is a personification of the supreme Rod in the microcosm of kinship. [3] Sometimes he has a female counterpart, Domania, the goddess of the household, [4] though he is most often a single god. [5] The Domovoy expresses himself as a number of other spirits of the household in its ...