McDonald’s Moscow Restaurant Reopens After 3-Month Shutdown | Johnson's Russia List

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Historian discovers Cold War-era Russian spy map of Sunderland

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/all-news/historian-discovers-cold-war-era-russian-spy-map-of-sunderland-1-6956843

Russian Language Notes: Костёр

Костёр = Bonfire

I love it when you find out something about your own language when you are studying another language.  I'm sure I knew that the word bonfire was originally a fire in which bones were burned, coming from came from Middle English banefire (late 15c.), but I must have forgotten this fact long ago.  So when I came across the Russian word for a bonfire, kostyor, noticing "kost" - the Russian the word for bone, I got that Eureka moment spotting the cognate.

http://bouncermangel.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/latin-primer.html

http://blog.therussiahouse.net/2013/03/russian-language-notes-hot-dogs.html
http://blog.therussiahouse.net/2013/07/its-better-to-see-once-than-hear.html