Back in the U**R: Russia’s New Profanity Wars
Really? We’re going back to х**, п***а, е****, and б***?
Continue reading...Angela Brintlinger is Professor of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Ohio State University. She specializes in Russia, though her interests extend to the former Soviet republics and she was Fulbright Professor of Slavic Studies at University of Warsaw in 2013. Her most recent book is Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero across the Twentieth Century (Academic Studies Press, 2012), and she blogs about language, culture, food and travel at http://manicbookstorecafe.blogspot.com .
brintlinger.3@osu.eduReally? We’re going back to х**, п***а, е****, and б***?
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