🌐Weekly News Digest [ January 26 – February 1 ]
That was a week of bribery charges and expansion of extraction activities across the whole continent.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇩🇿 Algeria
— Algeria’s minister for hydrocarbons visits Chad and Niger
🇨🇬 Congo
— Two Norwegians and an oil company charged with bribing Congo’s president
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— The leader of the AFC/M23 critisizes the US-DRC strategic agreement on access to minerals
— More than 200 killed in a collapse at the AFC/M23-controlled Rubaya coltan mines in eastern DRC
🇱🇷 Liberia
— Liberia ratified an agreement with the Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, extending the company’s rights to the Tokadeh iron deposit until 2075
🇲🇱 Mali
— China’s largest mining company, Zijin buys Canadian company Allied Gold
🇲🇬 Madagascar
— Madagascar has lifted its 2010 moratorium on new mining permits, except for gold
🇲🇿 Mozambique
— TotalEnergies officially resume the Mozambique LNG project
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu grants tax incentives to speed up Shell’s Bonga South West oil project
— TotalEnergies sells its 10% stake in a Nigerian oil asset to a brand new local firm
— A bribery trial of a former Nigerian minister of petroleum opens in London
🇸🇩 Sudan
— Sudan seeks closer alignment with Saudi Arabia, including gold refinement
🇿🇲 Zambia
— Zambia’s army carries out a full-fledged military operation around a gold deposit in the northwest of the country
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
— Illegal miners blamed for water supply disruptions in Zimbabwe's second largest city
— Zimbabwe starts early implementation of increased royalties on gold mining
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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
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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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