🌐Weekly News Digest [ January 5 – January 11 ]
That was the first full-fledged week of the new year of 2026, during which rulers forgave those who polluted their land, dismissed those who were managing their oil.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇧🇼 Botswana
— Botswana Invites Russia to Invest in Its Mining Sector
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— Congolese clergy speaks against the US-DRC agreement.
— The government allows processing units to accept ore from artisanal miners amid protests
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
— Equatorial Guinea moves its capital to a brand new city built on oil revenues
🇬🇭 Ghana
— A Ghanaian prophet predicts the discovery of major onshore oil deposits in Ghana
— Ghana hopes to keep its oil fields viable until 2040
🇲🇱 Mali
— JNIM militants attack a gold mine in southeastern Mali
🇳🇪 Niger
— Niger replaces its oil minister
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— President reshuffles the country's oil sector management
🇸🇩 Sudan
— Sudan’s central bank and Sudanese Mineral Resources Company set up a joint commission to curb illegal gold exports.
🇺🇬 Uganda
— Uganda to start its first oil exports by October, despite environmental concerns
🇿🇲 Zambia
— First report on the toxic pollution caused by a Chinese company designates 160 people as victims
— Zambia is concerned over the safety of its workers in southern DRC
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Почерк — это отражение нашей личности на бумаге.
Handwriting is a reflection of our personality on paper.
✍️Николай Гоголь
Nikolai Gogol
✍️Эрнест Хемингуэй
Ernest Hemingway
✍️Александр Дюма (отец)
Alexandre Dumas père
✍️Владимир Набоков
Vladimir Nabokov
✍️Джейн Остин
Jane Austen
✍️Александр Пушкин
Alexander Pushkin
✍️Вирджиния Вулф
Virginia Woolf
✍️Иоганн Гёте
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
✍️Франц Кафка
Franz Kafka
✍️Лев Толстой
Leo Tolstoy
❓️How is your handwriting when you write in Russian?😉
▶️Russian cursive letters (+practice)
#cursive
#brief_and_interesting
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School in the Russian Empire, late 19th century
❓️Can you read the 3 words written on the board?
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In the Russian Empire 'i' stood for modern 'и':
1. Жукъ = жук (beetle)
2. Ученiя = учения (studies)
3. Сiянiе = сияние (shining)
▶️Reforms in 1918
#retrophotos
#cursive
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In Russia doctors may be required to print prescriptions: many pharmacists and patients struggle to read their handwriting.
🔻This leads to the refusal of medication sales, treatment delays, or the dispensing of the wrong drug, believes MP Anton Tkachev. He emphasized that it's especially difficult for the elderly, who cannot decipher the prescriptions themselves.
📎 And you say you can't read what Russians write. Russians themselves struggle to decipher what other Russians write! :)
Source: rt_russian
#cursive
#learnRussian
#news
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That merciless Russian cursive handwriting!
• Шиш
[shysh]
🔻This interjection (or sometimes exclamatory noun) is used to denote a strong, emphatic refusal, denial, or the idea of nothing or you won't get anything.
⚠️It's generally rude or dismissive!
🔻Шиш is a very close synonym of фиг. Both words are used in similar contexts to express negation, refusal, or to refer to the fig sign gesture.
🔻While фиг might be slightly more common and versatile in some everyday expressions, шиш carries a similar dismissive and negative connotation.
#spoken_Russian
#cursive
#foul_language
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Writing Ч ч in cursive can be challenging, but not for you!
🔻Let's watch the video, print out the practice sheet and, shedding tears of despair, practice and move on.
❓Which other letters of the Russian alphabet make you overwhelmingly want to chuck the study of Russian overboard?
📎The pdf file is in the comments
▶️Hard sign tutorial
▶️Сursive letters
#practice
#cursive
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Writing the hard sign (ъ) in cursive can be challenging, but not for us, right?
🔻Let's watch the video, print out the practice sheet and, shedding tears of despair, practise and move on.
❓Which other letters of the Russian alphabet make you overwhelmingly want to chuck the study of Russian overboard?
📎 file is in the comments
▶️Сursive letters
#practice
#cursive
😎 Stay with @learnRCRussian
Напиток называется "Grappa", а не то что вы прочитали.
The drink is called Grappa, not what you read.
🤔What did you read?
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🔞⚠️
• Сучара (femin.)
[su-cha-ra]
⚠️ Vulgar slang! A highly offensive, intensified version of сука(bitch). Means something like a total bitch. Expresses extreme hatred, betrayal, or disgust.
❗️Do not use this word! Understand it only to recognize aggression in speech or media!
#cursive
#linguistic_joke
#Russian_riddle
#foul_language
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