October | 2009 | English Russia

Categories Funny, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society

Looks like we are having “Dude, Where is my …” day. Well, a leak in a storage freight one day left some Russian firefighters near Moscow

wondering just where their foam went. They didn’t have to look far though: it had escaped to the river! Run free, foam, run free.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society

Ah, the importation of cultural habits: Moscow kids mimicking American ‘thug life’. While pretty amusing, and perhaps not

even surprising, how come you never see kids in Harlem wearing kokoshniks and taking balalaikas with them to parties?

Categories History, Photos, russian army, Russian People

From time to time photos of child soldiers in Africa holding AK-47s or some other kind of weapon appear here and there provoking outrage and compassion from the Western public. But just a few decades ago, during World War II, there were often occasions of Russian kids fighting in the regular army against the Nazis. Generally speaking, children were not allowed to join the combat army—but many exceptions were made. Many kids tried to run away from their homes “to the War” but most such cases were eventually captured by military police and returned back to their homes. While some did succeed in joining the army, it was often the case for these runaways to get lost in the

woods or shot along their journey. Also, from time to time, soldiers found children in the devastated and burnt down villages of the Soviet Union. While there was a directive for them to send such children to established orphanages, still sometimes such boys were simply incorporated into the active combat units. Specially sized uniforms were tailored for them and they were entrusted with guns. Some of those boys joined the army at nine or eleven, and stayed with their regiment through all the war front, from Russia to Germany, until the war ended and they were discharged at fourteen or sixteen, often with medals of honor.

Categories Funny, Photos, Technology

After this post about grain harvesting in Russia, many people supposed that it was some kind of “ideal” farm that differs greatly from other Russian agricultural companies because the images showed foreign harvesters, trucks and other machinery. So to clear things

up, here are some pictures of Russian produced grain harvesters. The “DON-1500″, has been in production since 1986 and is still sold in Russia. These particular ones are still being used. These machines, bought new, run about $120,000.

Categories Funny, History, Photos, Russian People

Here are a few shots of Russian youth from back in the Seventies. Mustaches and Beatle’s haircuts

abound! For comparison, we also included some current day pictures of Russians (below).

Categories Funny, Law, Russian People, Sports, Video

Today we have some scraps from the Ukraine! These pictures and the video are taken from a recent parliament meeting in which a new bill was passed. A small note of interest – the tall, angry looking fellow is

named Vitali Klitschko and he is not only a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe, but he is also the current World Boxing Council heavyweight champion.

Categories Funny, Other, Russian People

For those of you who like quizzes, we have put together a little current events guessing game about everyone’s favorite people – police. According to media reports, there is no crime too silly or ridiculous for police involvement, so sit

back and try to guess which of these news headlines are real and which ones we made up to confuse you and completely destroy the reputation of our fine police force. Ready? Go! (Translations and answers after the jump.)

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society

In Russia, many drivers are suspicious of those who beg for pennies at traffic lights. It is commonly thought amongst some that many of these handicapped

panhandlers are merely faking it. While many other people find this attitude hopelessly callous, they might want to take a look at the pictures below.

Categories Fiction, Funny, Russian Art, Russian People, Society

“How long should we tolerate those tasteless paintings they call ‘graffiti’? After asking this question myself twice I said - we shouldn’t any more!” So says Anastasia, the leader of SSAE - Samarian Street Art Elders. “We decided to show what real graffiti should look like so that our children could adapt good tastes from an early age”. And so be it - this small town near

Samara cCity, Russia began to change with the help of this SSAE team. They decided to give street art a “granny” twist. “We also put nice poetry on walls, it helps!” Now the walls of houses and lobbies as well as out door spaces such as playgrounds, are all covered by “Granny Graffiti” and it seems the old graffiti artists have run scared.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos

We’ve seen a lot of nice cars from Russia here already. It’s no secret there a lot of them: a British journalist once said that only in Moscow could he see several Lamborghinis or Ferraris stopped at one traffic light. So we wondered if this was a cultural thing. First we looked to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, another piece of the USSR that gained its independence not even twenty years ago. While the Ukraine has been less fortunate in terms

of natural resources, the stamp of Soviet heritage is strong and many Ukrainians even prefer Russian as their primary language. So we deduced this could mean only one thing—there should be tons of luxury cars there too. Thus, we set on a brief examination of the streets of Kiev and it looks like we were right: yet another country with an average salary under 25 grand but with cars costing over $200,000.

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