Russian language Essentials: The abscence of articles in Russian
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Russian Language Essentials
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The abscence of articles in Russian / Отсутствие артиклей
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There are no articles in Russian.

Therefore, both an actress and the actress are translated into Russian just as актри́са; both a tiger and the tiger just as тигр and so forth.