Russian Language in 18 Minutes

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Old East Slavic and Slang, vowel reduction and swearing, ѣ and ё, Methodius and Rozenthal, we've squeezed everything you need to know about the history of the Russian language into this one video.

Academic Consultants:
Dmitriy ​Sichinava​, Candidate of Philological Sciences and Senior Fellow at the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksandr ​Lifshits​, Candidate of Philological Sciences and Senior Lecturer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics
Igor Pil’shchikov, Doctor of Philological Sciences and Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of World Culture at Moscow State University.

We also have a series of podcasts about Russian language which go into much greater detail: https://arzamas.academy/likbez/ruslang