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Global Voices asked to use my perekhod photo in their article, (In)Accessibility in Moscow. Read the article.

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A bomb exploded at Moscow State University on Saturday and a second was found before it was detontated. Several hundred people had to evacuate the Soviet-era “wedding- cake” style university building on Moscow’s Sparrow Hills, a police spokesman said.

According to the Russian Gizmodo page, Hewlett-Packard Black printer ink #45 costs nearly twice as much as human blood and significantly more than penicillin, vodka, Red Bull, and crude oil.

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. This Wikipedia page lists similar sentences in many languages. Also, don’t mix up homophones and homonyms with homographs, of which I’m particularly fond.

The president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, has revived talks of reforming the Kazakh alphabet to use a Latin script rather than Cyrillic. After the collapse of the USSR several other former Soviet republics did the same (Turkmenistan, Moldova, and Uzbekistan in the mid 90’s; Azerbaijan in 2001) in order to cut some of their ties to Russia.

Interesting tidbit: Apparently, the game Mafia was invented at Moscow State University’s psych department in 1986.