There was certainly no shortage of YouTube channels teaching Russian, but there’s always room for one more – therefore, also always for more than one. Here are seven pretty new ones, worth checking out.

The end of this month marks the 25th anniversary of the resignation of Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) as President of Russia. It also marks the beginning of a quarter century of Putin.

Amsterdam, November 4. In the queue of people waiting in front of the doors of AFAS. Where Zemfira will soon be performing. Left, right, front and back: Russian everywhere. My company almost feels at home.

Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but the attitude is rock.

Verbs work for those who want to make sentences. There – work and make, there you already have two. And try to make Russian out of that sentence if you if you don’t know работать or делать. So work, also on your vocabulary.

Raw Anti-Putin punk from Nizhny Novgorod / Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.

The Netherlands holds a unique place in the Russian imagination. This is how the country, and its people, are viewed through Russian eyes.

Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic currrent. Created by Михаил Родионов (Mikhail Rodionov) (1992).

Even with bad news there is good news: there is a lot to learn from it. Russian news articles are excellent teaching material, even for the more advanced student.

On February 6, 2024, Tucker Carlson spoke with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. A good, or at least broad opportunity to hear the Russian perspective on the war against Ukraine.