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I had a question for all the Americans, non-native Russians: Is it just me or does it feel like if anything has cyrillic letters on it it's more expensive? I'm aware that Russian things imported to America would indeed have to cost more, but somehow it feels "right" to have anything with cyrillic letters to cost more. I would gladly pay anyone like 5 bucks for something written in cyrillic that's worth reading. Or like products. Grocery stuff. I dunno, but I think I might be crazy.

Now for the Russians: Upon reading some stuff from Akhmatova, I was wondering whether or not песня was used/spelled differently back then. I.e. "Теперь никто не станет слушать песен" and "За вечерней пенье." Is that normal or is does the word станет take the genetive case that I'm missing out on? And I've never heard the second one before.