Russian

The birth year 1950 on Putin’s symbolic gravestone in Tbilisi opens the door to a curious Georgian legend: that Putin was raised in the Georgian village of Metekhi

In the cemetery of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Vyšší Brod, founded in 1259, stands an unusual grave: a simple concrete monument bearing a red star and a gold hammer and sickle, with the gilded inscription below

For the Georgians, Prince Konstantin’s unexpected return home was also seen as the sudden revival of national pride and ancient royal dignity, which contemporaries called a “spiritual coronation”

The most widespread Russian type of Hagia Sophia stems from a pious misunderstanding, depicting Hagia Sophia as “Saint Sophia” accompanied by her three daughters, Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov

“Control language and you control thought.” If people—thanks to Russian state brainwashing—automatically attach these connotations to a concept, they naturally reach the conclusions suggested by the authorities and act accordingly