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When empire is a burden, it is time to abandon it. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Rus...

From the Ottoman Empire to Turkey, the change was dramatic. How did it happen? To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the...

Necessary even if illegal, pirates operated in the grey zone between empires.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the...

What can be more contemporary than writing about himself and individual happiness? In this, Montaigne is close to us, but his happiness is significantly different.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on...

"Australia" means "southern." To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian? Learn Russian C...

Backward and undeveloped? Rather rich in culture and more autochthonal, Latin America is a world of its own. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRD...

Stanislaw Lem wrote a book about a thinking ocean, Andrey Tarkovsky's movie shows what this ocean can be capable of. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE...

Talking to people can make you really famous. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian?...

Is there a history of Africa? To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian? Learn Russian C...

China is one of the first ancient civilizations that survived until today. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the clas...

A Muslim empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Turkey was a home for many ethnicities and confessions. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiL...

In Soviet Russian, "to throw away" meant "to put on store shelves" and "to get hold of something" meant to "buy it." To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE...

When Muscovite tsardom conquered its first Muslim neighbors, the Russian Empire was born.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready t...

Marxism did not eliminate Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy had not eliminated paganism. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the cla...

Even if it is not certain where the name of this region comes from, Siberia is what makes Russia so big. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSl...

How are you? - The same way as in Poland: he who has more is a master. Medieval Poland was a republic and a great power in the 16th century. What role did Russia play in shaping the modern Polish nation? To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample tra...

Why did the Soviet Union build the second railway from the Baikal lake to the Pacific ocean? To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready...

Once upon a time there was the Aral Sea. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian? Lear...

What Central Asia is in English is often called Middle Asia in Russian. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classro...

Russian Germans were Germans, but also English, Scots, Dutch, and Danes.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the class...

Finland went a long way from a Swedish province to a Russian dependency, and eventually to an independent state.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0uf...

7 million 200 thousand dollars, this is how much the US paid Russia for Alaska. Huge money for the territory seen by some as a "box of ice" in 1867! To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https:...

Chechnya has recently been Russia's sore spot. In this episode, we talk about the roots of conflict and how highlanders of the North Caucasus resisted the rule of Imperial Russia.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian...

In this episode, we talk about geography and national identities in conflict.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the...

Looking from Moscow, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are situated in Transcaucasia, but this region is also called the South Caucasus. In the 18th century, it was surrounded by three empires – Russia, the Ottomans (nowadays Turkey), and Persia (Iran). Names and titles in the episode: Lermontov, "A Hero of Our Time." To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcas...