In this video I would like to share with you some knowledge about Russian gestures, about the culture of Russian gestures. And I would like to start with just a general situation with gestures. According to some studies, Russians ranked in the middle of the Earth populations in terms of gesturing. And of course there are several peculiarities like researches, not researchers noted that Russians are not frequently using gestures which involve both hands simultaneously. So it's not a part of our culture. You can use one hand, but very rarely two of them together. I'll have any conversation. It's important to keep eye contact. So that just confirms that you are in touch, you mean what you say and then you pay attention to what other that your interlocutor is saying. It is also considered to be very impolite to point that something with your index finger. So this is very polite. So the solution here is it just indicates something with your entire palm like this. Well some smart S is they say okay one finger is impolite but if you do it with three then it's okay. Now I'm coming close to gestures. So number one is how to back in the person. It's like this. Oh, this is how you attract a person like from here. That came later this from the Matrix movie. And there is one interesting gesture from basically Asian culture which sends a very confusing message to Russians. This is that cat which backens luck doing it like this. And to us this is akin to waving goodbye. Like we do it like this sometimes. Like like this. And so it's very confusing to Russians. They don't understand what to do with such souvenir which just basically says you back off. Stay away from me. That's a bit confusing. Not about gestures for yes and no. If you want to say yes you just know. And if you want to say no you shake your head. There is of course a big cluster of kids' gestures. I still remember them. So I'm not at all but they basically are concerning teasing. So one of them is like came from the the Buratino movie which is a Russian equivalent of Pinocchio. And this is like this. Or even like that. So this is to tease a person. How do you call my or pacify a kid? You just make this international gesture. And it works at least at times. There is an interesting tradition of congratulating a person with his or her birthday. You just come from behind to the person who just turned the say 15. And you take his or her ears and pull them a number of times which correspond to the number of years the person just reached. So it's like one two three and you count it a lot. So this is a strange tradition in Russian. But it's a slowly dyno. Not some words about gestures for greeting and saying goodbye. So you normally greet the person with a firm handshake. Or with hugs or with kisses and men don't kiss each other. Women do they start doing it since I believe mid-90s when they first saw it on Western TV or something. How do you say goodbye? Well you either make a hand shake or kiss upon cheek or we've good bye like this or like this. It's like kids do it. There are several exclusive Russian gestures I believe. Well number one is a gesture for imprisonment or imprisonment general. This is like this. It symbolizes bars. Then a very very universal gesture for alcohol or drink. This is like it doesn't matter with which finger. And that just you can indicate that the person you can know that the person and make this silent gesture and the person and your person whom you're showing this understands that the other person is drunk. And if for example you come to an apartment or you see a table with the bottles on it and you can just without say uttering the word you can just make this gesture and the person immediately understands that the bottles are actually containing alcohol. And yeah this is our universal gesture because I guess you guys out there in the world are well aware about the big place of the whole is occupying Russian culture so this big. One of the other gestures is how to show a person that you are fed up with him or fed up with something. So you just show this and say I fed up up to to my neck. So I've had enough basically. Another gesture is how you indicate that the person is crazy or the idea is insane. So this is like that. I know that some nations are doing it like this or something else or Japanese probably I heard doing something like kurukuro poh or something like that. The symbol or gesture for money is this. This is widespread and I guess we borrowed it from some agents, some troll agents of occasions. And sometimes we imitate the nations we trust around in us. It's like when we try to imitate the Italians we start gesturing like crazy like omama mia bon giorno bambina something like this or Hispanics like ke pasa ke tal te kere marit or something like that. And so for say our occasion at neighbors we like to say something like this. So we think that they are using this gesture very often just to stress the importance of what they're saying or express that they're delighted something. Or what a girl. Something like that. This is the end of my brief video. I hope you've learned a bit about Russian gestures. And yes and we never do it like this because they say that you need your head to be covered with some kind of cap or head gear and especially this is a military salute so you can do it only if you have that kind of device on your head. So goodbye folks. Jesus Christ.