Heeey Russian Community!

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I've a request. To check my essay on дедовщина. I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes as to what soldiers are called and the etymology of the word дедовщина, so I'd be really grateful if you could correct me on that as well.

Also, can someone remind me of a specific case of someone getting killed in the army because of dedovshchina? I remember there being a case with an Andrey, but 1/6th of all Russian men are named Andrey, so that really doesn't help.

( Дедовщина )

Под

[freedomcry.livejournal.com]

A funny picture about three different uses of the preposition "под" (under).

( под чем человек? )

capitalization and russian news stories

[fiachasorcha.livejournal.com]

This is perhaps a silly question, but one I've always wondered about.

Different languages have different rules on capitalization, and nobody ever really bothered to teach them to us in my Russian classes. I know names and cities should be capitalized, as well as the beginning of each sentence, but what about months (in a date for example)? Any other strange and unusual capitalization rules?

Also does anyone have any suggestions for websites where I can find Russian news stories (i.e. in the original russian)? I have to read and summarize them for my class, so it would be helpful if they were not incredibly long and used vocabulary at a high-intermediate level, although I can work my way through anything. I already use BBCRussia, Gazeta.ru, and ITAR-TASS.

thank you!