shakhidka n.— «You won’t find it in any Russian dictionary, but a single word dominates newspaper headlines and conversations in the street after two weeks of bombings and mayhem: shakhidka, or female Islamist suicide bomber. A mix of the...
feather lift n.— «Barnes recently underwent a Feather Lift, a new cosmetic procedure imported from Russia that employs a tailor’s tools and works by implanting a small, surgical nylon thread under the skin to lift sagging skin in the...
katastroika n. In the former Soviet republics, a disastrous government reform or change, esp. the perestroika movement of the 1990s and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also catastroika. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
catastroika n.— «Catastroika. A mixture of catastrophe and perestroika, it is used by Alexander Sinoviev in the title of a satirical novel he wrote in 1989.» —“Europe: Light at the Opera—Gazetta” by Desmond...
catastroika n.— «While Gorbachev’s political reforms are breathtaking, his economic perestroika appears overly cautious and utterly ineffectual. French scholar Jacques Rupnik has suggested a new label: catastroika. The sprawling Soviet...
katastroika n.— «In the first phase of Mr Gorbachev’s rule, some Russians thought that glasnost was just a trick to get the reformers to stick their heads above the parapet and identify themselves. “Perestrelka,” said the...