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Here is some generally accepted terminology about the A/O thing: оканье and аканье (in both words the first syllable is stressed). We say они окают about northern speakers and мы акаем about...

Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania, Saxony and Russia joined in the Northern Union against Sweden in 1699-1700.
But only Russia remained an active member of this union all the time during the Great...

Every youtube video with Lukashenko features some elements of Belarussian accent, but not in every word.

Another excellent А/О example - "Россия молодая":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKjZjSt9WW8

In this TV series the protagonist Ivan Ryabov (he is a real historical figure, a Pomor, i.e. a...

А/О thing is much rarer than Г/Х thing if we speak of all Russia. Zuganov, for example, speaks with the southern variety of Г/Х, but I don't know any TV personality who has А/О issue in his/her...

Pronunciation of Russian has its regional varieties too. The Г/Х issue is probably the most noticable one - southerners (close to Ukraine) say Х instead of Г. Other well-known difference is А/О...

BTW, there are some Russian pseudoscientists who think that most of world history stems from Russian history.
This picture is a parody on their views:...

I'd write man as мэн and men as мен.

I think that pronouncing ш instead of щ sounds like speaking Russian with Belarussian accent :grin:
Like these two guys, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlUvUTWaFBw