Celebrating Cosmonautics Day at VDNKh

On April 12, the major Russian exhibition will traditionally support Cosmonautics Day festivities. Free sightseeing (экскурсионный) tours starting every hour, from 11:30 am to 08:30 pm, will be another present for people visiting VDNKh on April 12. Two of these tours, starting at 12:30 pm and 01:30 pm, will be guided by Fyodor Yurchikhin. Guests…

Grammar Tip

Present Perfect Continuous Tense. Use 2: Recently, Lately You can also use the present perfect continuous without a duration such as “for two weeks”. Without the duration, the tense has a more general meaning of “lately”. We often use the words “lately” or “recently” to emphasise this meaning. Example: Recently, I have been feeling really…

Spellbinding (adj.)

Today’s Word of the Day is: “spellbinding” (adj.) Transcription: [ˈspelˌbaɪn.dɪŋ] Russian Translation: завораживающий, очаровывающий Definition: holding your attention completely Example: He gave a spellbinding performance! Synonyms: fascinating, captivating, hypnotic