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 In America, I learned to like stew. In Russia we have a similar soup that is called BORSCH. It has one critical ingredient: beets that make the soup red. 

"Don't be an A-hole"

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      Sometimes, banal sinus infection can mess up not just your equilibrium, but your whole day.

Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much

    Russians didn't  need to be taught to sacrifice their lives for others: they were ready to give away everything at a difficult moment, even to die for others in a disaster. The question was, what about the rest of the time? As one of our humorists said, "You need disaster to make people kind, but in good times people are like wolves."