Languages
“Privet” means “hello” in this language.
What is Russian?
This country is the largest in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
This empire, once ruled by the Romanovs, fell in 1917.
What is the Russian Empire?
Russians traditionally eat this red soup made with beets.
What is borscht?
This popular cartoon features a mischievous little girl and a bear.
What is Masha and the Bear?
This Slavic language uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets officially.
What is Serbian?
The capital of Ukraine is this city.
What is Kyiv?
Mikhail Gorbachev introduced “glasnost” and “perestroika” during this period.
What is the Soviet era / the 1980s?
This nesting doll is a famous Russian souvenir.
What is a matryoshka doll?
This Ukrainian band won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest with their song “Stefania.”
Who is Kalush Orchestra?
Speakers of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian can often understand parts of each other’s languages because they all descend from this common ancestor.
What is Old East Slavic?
This mountain range divides European and Asian Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This leader served as the first president of independent Kazakhstan.
Who is Nursultan Nazarbayev?
In Ukraine, people paint these decorative Easter eggs.
What are pysanky?
This Russian figure skater became famous for her expressive routines and Olympic gold medal at age 15.
Who is Alina Zagitova?
This Caucasian language is known for having its own unique alphabet, unrelated to Latin or Cyrillic scripts.
What is Georgian?
This landlocked Central Asian country is known for its Silk Road cities like Samarkand and Bukhara.
What is Uzbekistan?
The city of Sarajevo became world-famous after this 1914 event.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This traditional Russian winter festival celebrates the end of winter with pancakes, bonfires, and effigies.
What is Maslenitsa?
This Kazakh singer gained international fame for his six-octave vocal range after appearing on a Chinese TV competition.
Who is Dimash Kudaibergen?
The Kazakh word dos (дос) means this — which you might call someone you really trust.
What is “friend”?
The Baltic States include Estonia, Latvia, and this country.
What is Lithuania?
The USSR invaded this country in 1979, sparking a decade-long war.
What is Afghanistan?
This traditional Kyrgyz dwelling, made of felt and wooden frames, is a symbol of nomadic culture in Central Asia.
What is a yurt?
This fictional Kazakh journalist, created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, became a global pop culture phenomenon.
Who is Borat Sagdiyev?