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For those trying to catch up on all that is "unorthodox" in the Russian language, Russkiye Slovari has just come out with Moscow Argot, a new hardcover dictionary of conversational speech compiled by Professor Vladimir Yelistratov of Moscow State University. The book, which is available now for about 8,000 rubles, is proving popular with readers, but is still considered to fall behind Zhivaya Rech (Live Language): Dictionary of Colloquial Expressions, published by the Soros Foundation-sponsored Kulturnaya Initsiativa.
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Russian tourists can now travel abroad in a civilized fashion, enjoying reliable guidebooks to the countries they are visiting, issued in their native language. Illustrated Russian-language guides to Italy, Greece, Turkey, France and North America have been published by Dubl V, a private publishing house working under the license of Polyglot, a German company. Additional books for Israel, Spain, Thailand, Cyprus and England will be issued over the next two months. Thirty in all are scheduled to be published by the end of next year.
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