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aldanor on Nov 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried Ab...

"Pravda" never means justice in Russian (saying this as a native speaker), it means "truth". Btw there was a famous communist newspaper named Pravda, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda.

moondowner on Nov 20, 2013 [–]

My bad. Justice in Russian is actually "pravosudie" (if I got the romanization right).

Justice in Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian and some other Slavic languages is "pravda". Predominantly in the South Slavic group it seems.

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