We learned in college that good writers should avoid using the passive voice. Yet this is one grammar lesson in particular that we all seemed to have forgotten . . . or never really understood in the first place.

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus’, the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were …

UTF-8 is an ASCII-preserving encoding method for Unicode (ISO 10646), the Universal Character Set (UCS). The UCS encodes most of the world’s writing systems in a single character set, allowing you to mix languages and scripts within a document without needing any tricks for switching character sets

Iranian languages: Iranian languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and tered areas of the Caucasus Mountains. Linguists typically approach the Iranian languages in

Dead Souls: Dead Souls, novel by Nikolay Gogol, published in Russian as Myortvye dushi in 1842. This picaresque work, considered one of the world’s finest satires, traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune. It is admired

A propaganda war is raging over the legitimacy of the voting process in Crimea and the neutrality of the international observers who went there.

Russian Literature. Please, select a book, poem or story from the list below: Notes from Underground (by Dostoyevsky) Anna Karenina (by Tolstoy)

Along with Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, the greatest Russian composer of the Nineteenth Century, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (March 9, 1839 – March 16, 1881) was born into a wealthy rural, landowning family.He began by picking out on the piano the tunes he heard from the serfs on his family’s estate. At the age of six, he began to study piano with …

Translating Literary Prose: Problems and Solutions By Md. Ziaul Haque, English Department Sylhet International University Shamimabad, Bagbari, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, “making”) is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.. Poetry has a long history, dating back to …