The Dialogue

Totem animals used to characterize tribes, empires, and now countries. Since ancient times people enjoyed associating themselves with animals: strong as a bear, fast as a hare, faithful as a wolf.
That’s why almost every European country has a national animal. Many even have more than a one. Let’s take a look:...

Wikipedia claims that the ‘“Church of Scientology in St. Petersburg” was liquidated by the courts’ decision’. If that’s true, where was I in December then?
First Stage: The Movie
On Nevsky prospect, the main street of St. Petersburg, we’ve run into promoters of Scientology who were handing out flyers. As soon as I got from the flyer that it’s about Scientology I started to ask my local friend about them....

The LGBTQ+ community is occasionally introducing new pronouns, but is it the only way to embrace gender diversity? What if we abandon pronouns altogether and just stick to a single one?
A Polish Perspective
Before going on I’d like to give an example from Polish. Even for a Russian speaker, some aspects of Polish seem very conservative or even sexist. Here’s table from the ‘Polski, krok po kroku’ textbook:...

If I could tell one thing to Hollywood it would be this: stop throwing away food in your movies. Thanks.
Hollywood Teaches Us Bad Habits
I’ve never visited the US but, like everybody in the world, I am a ‘consumer’ of the American movie industry. I am an Eastern European and it always amazed me how Americans interacted with food in Hollywood (or American) movies....