katastroika Β n.βΒ Β«The threats in the region from AIDS and other epidemics are potentially dire. Prophecies are always hazardous, but in the former Soviet Bloc, the outlook for the next few decades is perhaps best characterized by a Russian neologism...
haltura n. secondary work about which one is not serious or to which one is not fully committed; hackwork, moonlighting, freelancing. Also attrib. Editorial Note: In Hebrew, ΧΧΧΧΧ¨Χ. In Russian, Ρ Π°Π»ΡΡΡΡ. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
haltura Β n.βΒ Β«Haltura is when you are pretending to do a good job, pretending to be a professional, expert with a diploma and you are supposed to know what to do but you know you are just fucking around and you are flying by the seat of your pants...
haltura Β n.βΒ Β«It is considered that their main task is to earn extra money and neverβto offer a good artistic idea, good show. There is a very good word in Russian which is impossible to translate into EnglishββHALTURA.ββIt means money made on the...
haltura Β n.βΒ Β«This last depicts a theater troupeβs desperate attempts to take a draft of a new play and, with only 20 minutes preparation, present it to the government censor for approval. As it happens, this drama about a revolution on a tropical...
haltura Β n.βΒ Β«βHalturaβ is a word which has been used frequently by the Russian actor during Bolshevism and signifies an extra job on the outside of his own theatre. The βhalturaβ apparitions are staged without any artistic aims, and interest the...
