Hello

[Kuznetzova]

Hi. I'm a native of Ohio who is now living in New England.
I'm a reader of Marx and Lenin. I've been learning the Russian language for several years. Glad to be here.

[Landsharks eat metal]

Welcome. A lot of us seem to be learning/speak Russian. I'm one :)

[Threetune]

Welcome, this is going on now in the UK, Check out the ‘Politics’ threads.
Oscar Wilde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde) wrote from personal experience.
“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.”
Well it might be a case of last in first out when it comes to the press in Britain now. The latest ‘revelations’ that News International (and other) ‘news’ agents have been freely hacking the phones, bank accounts and medical records of all the ‘great and good’ of the British realm for decades including Prime Ministers, Holm Secretaries, Royalty, I’ve not heard about the judges yet.
In the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons in 1787 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Great_Britain)Edmond Burke said “there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all”. Now it looks as if the press intimidation of MPs, paid out of advertising revenues from big capital has hit the skids, maybe breaking an important historical control over ‘elected members’ of the institutionally corrupt parliament. This is only the beginning of the end for this stupid useless venal and violent capitalist dictatorship.

[danyboy27]

welcome.

[tanklv]

Welcome. A lot of us seem to be learning/speak Russian. I'm one :)

My heritage is Ukrainian - but our parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles all spoke it to hide things from us. Took Ukrainian in college - for a couple semesters - whenever I tried to speak it - I would always bring my grandmother to tears - she was laughing so hard!

Not much chance to use/speak it anymore...

Good luck in your persuit of the Russian language.