I don't think that's intentional. Russian doesn't have articles [1], so misuse (or omission) of the/a is not uncommon when Russian speakers write English. [1]

I don't think that's intentional. Russian doesn't have articles [1], so misuse (or omission) of the/a is not uncommon when Russian speakers write English. [1] "Definite and indefinite articles (corresponding to 'the', 'a', 'an' in English) do not exist in the Russian language. The sense conveyed by such articles can be determined in Russian by context." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar