Hello students of Russian! As I was listening to some Russian music while doing my homework last night I came across this song:
It has a lot of vocabulary words and grammatical concepts we know of, so it’s great for listening practice!
It’s also just a beautiful piece of art.
Enjoy my friends!
Hey all! Russian Club is hosting a movie night tonight! We’ll be watching Black Lighting, the Russian version of Batman. Anyone is welcome to join us for tea, snacks, and the flick at 6:30 tonight in the Cascadia common room. Cascadia Hall is located just across from Montag and past the Office of International Education. Hope to see you there!
Black Lightning Trailer
Hello all. Russian Club plans on hosting a movie night in the Ford Theatre this Wednesday at 6:30 PM. Hope to see you there! 
To those of you who attended out Willamette Maslenitsa Celebration, thank you! It was a delight to see you all there. If you have a passion for Russian culture and enjoyed the event, perhaps you should consider becoming a member of Russian Club. It meets 5:30 to 6:30 on Wednesdays in the World Languages Studio on the first floor of Ford Hall. No Russian speaking skills are necessary.
большое спасибо (a big thank you) to everyone to helped out to make the Maslenitsa celebration such a huge success. It’s estimated that over 150 people attendent the event! This has truly become a beloved Willamette tradition, so be proud that you helped put it together!
Here are some photos of the event taken by Mr. Franklin Miller (thank you).
Масленица has come and gone,
but it’s happy spirit will carry on.
The Russian club is congratulating you on a day on which many countries celebrate the achievements of women in their society. This event has roots in factories of New York city where for the first time in 1857 female workers of the manufacturing plants got together for a protest. They demanded a 10-hour workday as opposed to the 16-hour one for which they were paid mere nothing.
The history of the holiday in Russian can be found here.
And in English here.
Below is a Soviet poster that reads: March 8th – day of rebellion of workers against slavery of the kitchen! Off with oppression and the “routinness” of house life!
Seeing these awesome posters around campus already?
The planning is going full steam, there’s still time to sign up for ways in which you can help such as tend to the fire pit for a 15-minute shift. You’ll be the warmest bear from here until Vladivostok if you do!
Email or if you have any questions and don’t forget to RSVP to our Facebook event. Feel like tweeting about it? #MaslenitsaWU is where it’s at! Less than a week left! See you soon!
Hey everyone. I hope you’re having a lovely start to your week.
Just a quick reminder that we will have Russian Club this week in order to have an organizational meeting about the upcoming Maslenitsa celebration! Wednesday, 5:30 PM, World Languages Studio, first floor of Ford Hall.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
A meteor struck Russia on Friday the 15th. It streaked across the sky above the Ural Mountains and landed about 50 miles west of the city of Chelyabinsk, in a frozen lake. The damage it caused, which you can see in the following video, cost about a millions rubles worth of repairs, and injured approximately a thousand people.
Tomorrow (Saturday the 16th of February) the Russian Department faculty are going to see the remake of Anna Karenina (staring Keira Knightly) at the Salem Cinema (1127 Broadway NE – 503-378-7676) at 3:00 PM.
After the film there will be a discussion at the Broadway Coffeehouse. The department will be glad to cover your coffee.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to go.
Check out the trailer on the movie website here.
Hope to see you there!