Category Archives: News / Novosti

Делайте добро без корысти и оно обязательно вернется

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

Having gained notoriety for capturing graphic accidents and traffic rage, and most recently the meteorite in Chelyabinsk, the below video presents a different application of dashcams in Russia: paying it forward with random acts of kindness. The dashcam phenonmenon in … Continue reading →

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Dolphins and that

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

As usual, Karl Pilkington is completely right about everything: http://gawker.com/5990158/military-dolphins-with-frickin-guns-attached-to-their-heads-have-gone-missing-in-the-black-sea Ukraine’s navy has reportedly put out an APB for three dolphins that have gone missing in the Black Sea of the coast of Crimea. Oh, did I mention these are … Continue reading →

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‘All tucked in’

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

Full credit for this post goes to LP and SB: News that the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez (who was called an ‘outstanding leader and manager and a close friend of Russia’ by Vladimir Putin) will be embalmed and put … Continue reading →

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Meteor Hits Chelyabinsk

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

Leave it to social media to help us process the wild events in Chelyabinsk last week. In short, a meteor hit: I am still unsure if the meteor was debris from a passing asteroid. Regardless, this is more or less … Continue reading →

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No НОМО?

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

Last week the Duma passed an absurd law banning ‘homosexual propaganda’ and, specifically, the promotion of ‘homosexual behavior among minors,’ so Manezh was the site of some kerfuffles: Gay rights activists staged a ‘kiss-in’ to protest the bill, and multiple … Continue reading →

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Beloved

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

With tragic news striking two separate beloved Moscow institutions this month – namely the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director Sergei Filin, and the murder charges brought against Project O.G.I. co-founder Alexei Kabanov, let us seek comfort by combining … Continue reading →

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Food Packaging and Sex

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Last week the Russian food packaging industry had multiple brushes with sexual politics. For one, the re-naming of Kraft to ‘Mondelez’ is raising eyebrows in Russia as the name apparently sounds like a Russian term for oral sex. (“манда-лиз”) I … Continue reading →

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Geography Fail II

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

Which country is Gurbanguly from again Mr. Yanukovich? http://censor.net.ua/video_news/200110/novyyi_geograficheskiyi_konfuz_prezidenta_yanukovich_pereputal_turkmenistan_s_kazahstanom_video

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Russia Strong Country

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

The past month featured two separate instances of the Russian military making its way into public relations spots. Both instances were inadvertent (or maybe one inadvertent, and one advertant?), and a source of amusement: First, a tourism advertisement in Brussels … Continue reading →

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How you gonna do me like that?

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/video-of-putin-rejecting-priests-kiss-goes-viral/463286.html Article excerpts: – After shaking hands with Moscow region Governor Sergei Shoigu and other society board members, a priest grabs Putin’s hand and bends at the knees to plant a kiss on the back of the head of state’s … Continue reading →

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