Every year on 6 and 7 January, millions of Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas, almost two weeks after their western counterparts have already feasted and rung in the New Year. For several countries in Europe, including Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Russia and Belarus, parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and African countries such as Egypt…

since i have special sentiments towards slavic countries, i would like to talk about the one i mentioned above in the post title. Why is Czech Republic’scapital called Prague? The Czech name Praha is derived from an old Slavic word, práh, which means "ford" or "rapid", referring to the city’s origin at a crossing point…

I am a lover of Slavic countries and Slavic languages. I am not fluent in any of them. I know some words and phrases in several different Slavic languages. I know the most phrases in Polish, but not substantial. although I do not understand, but I like to listen to Slavic languages. They are very…