Questions tagged [этикет]

Sometimes I find Russians will use the more familiar form of address, ты, even when I have addressed them with вы. I felt that in the particular circumstances it was unlikely that they meant that we were now on friendly terms. This might happen…

I know that University professors are nearly always on вы with their students. School-age children are always addressed as ты by adults. So at what stage in the education system does the switch from ты to вы happen?

In English-speaking countries, when a child is being bad, parents often address her in full name to discipline. Do Russian parents do the same thing? I’m curious to know.

I came across a Russian forum that required an invitation code (код приглашения) to be eligible for registration, so I have to write a request email in Russian to the forum admin in order to get the code. It has to be written in Russian, but I don't…