| Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy. |
| I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them. |
| But Mr Lukashenka has seen to it that state salaries and the pensions of rural babushkas are paid on time, even managing modest increases. |
| A group of portly babushkas working at the city's Trifonov Monastery confided that they were covert supporters of the blogger. |
| Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas? |
| The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. |
