Learn Russian with News

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

Series

Yaroslava Russian has quite a range. From Prigozhin’s Plane Crash (2023, 29 m) to a Documented Alien (2024, 27 m). Collected in a playlist, including:

• 7 years in jail for anti-war price tag protest (2023, 23 m)
• New Argentinian president deports all Russians from Argentina (2023, 23 m)
• Russian President resigns in New Year’s night (2024, 55 m)
• Russia might have a new candidate for president (2024, 36 m)
• The biggest meteor in 100 years Explodes in Chelyabinsk, Russia (2024, 30 m)
• Victory Day | Germany’s Surrender in WWII (2024, 33 m)

Learn Russian with News | Why books in Russia are being censored
(2024, 24 m)
Article on realnoevremya.ru.

Grammar

Russian with Julie deploys the terror of all language students: the super fast-talking newsreader(s). Each snippet (Vladimir Zhirinovsky died, Putin congratulates Aleksandar Vučić) provides material for minutes of analysis and (especially) grammar.

Learn Russian with News
(2022, 17 m)

Wimbledon

Anna Cher (Russian From the Heart) was helpful enough to go through a (slightly abbreviated) BBC article three times. First slowly, then with explanations, and at the end quickly – though for her в нормальном темпе, at normal pace. What at first seems completely inimitable soon becomes clear. Anna is thanked, and for two years missed, too.

Russian News Reading: Уимблдон и российские теннисисты
(2022, 20 m)

MORE

Boost Your Russian made eight episodes of News in Slow Russian, collected in this playlist. “News” is a big word for items like Skinniest House in London (2021, 6 m), Postcard from Titanic (2021, 7 m) and Unusual spots for wedding (2022, 7 m), but that matters little: Kristina’s (read-aloud) voice makes everything indigestible.

Russian with Nastya covers news vocabulary in Understand Russian News | Advanced Vocabulary (2023, 22 m).

The Russian News for language students series by Learn Russian (Stanislav Chernyshov) is mediocre and outdated. 19 brief items in this playlist for those nevertheless interested.