• Хапуга (хапуги) (common gender)
  [kha-pu-ga (kha-pu-gi)]

🔻A хапуга is a person who grabs or appropriates what belongs to others; a grabber, a pilferer, a greedy person.

🔻It comes from the colloquial verb хапать [ka-pat'] (to grap something greedily even if you don't need this).

🔻This word is often used in reference to bribetakers.

• Ты даже не ешь помидоры! Зачем ты их взял, хапуга?!
You don't even eat tomatoes! Why did you take them, you greedy guts! / You grabber!

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The tenth anniversary "Ice Moscow. In the Family Circle" festival took place on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.

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Daniil Ivanovich Kyutinen, a baker in besieged Leningrad, died of starvation on February 3, 1942, at the age of 59, while at work

🔻He died without having eaten a single gram of the bread he baked for others.

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It turns out cats swear!

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ОK, я позже зайду!
OK, I'll drop in later!

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Позже 🆚️ попозже 🆚️ потом

🔻These adverbs all relate to time in the future and can be translated as later.

🔢 Позже
[po-zhe]
Later

🔻This is the most general and neutral term, simply meaning "later." It doesn't specify how much later:

• Я приду позже.
I'll come later.

🔢 Попозже
[pa-po-zhe]
А bit later

🔻This word adds the nuance of a little later, soon, or in a short while. It implies a shorter delay than позже. Think of the ПО- prefix as meaning a little:

• Я позвоню тебе попозже.
I'll call you a little later.

🔢 Потом
[pа-tom]
Аfterwards, eventually

🔻This word implies a less definite, more distant future. It suggests something will happen after something else, but the exact time isn't specified:

• Сделаем это потом.
Let's do it afterwards/later.

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Game players in the USSR, 1947

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Balalaika Russian Dance by 10-year-old Isabel Ionita, school: Dance Planet

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Любители зимы такие: хаха, зато без комаров!
Winter lovers are like: Haha, at least there are no mosquitoes!

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A neural network showed what Russian writers would look like in our time.

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💙 The crystal-clear waters of Lake Baikal are mesmerizing

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Двойной КОТпучино, пожалуйста!
Double CATpuccinо, please!

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🔻Mind the spelling in the Russian word (no double consonants):

• Капучино
[kah-poo-chee-nah]
Сappuccino

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• Родиться в рубашке (perf.)
[rа-di-tsa v ru-bash-ke]
SLT: To be born in a shirt

Meaning:
This idiom describes someone incredibly lucky, someone who always escapes danger or difficult situations unscathed.

English Equivalent: 
To be born under a lucky star, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Etymology:
The expression likely originates from the belief that babies born enveloped in the amniotic sac (the "shirt") were especially protected and destined for good fortune. 

Example:
• Ей чудом удалось остаться целой в этой аварии. Она родилась в рубашке!
She miraculously survived that accident. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth!

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