Nice Watches
One Russian newspaper has published the photos of Russian politicians and top governmental dudes with the wrist watches visible on their hands and found all those watches in shops so put this info together with the pics giving the exact price (without tax and custom fees) in the captions.
Those don’t require translations. It’s easy to understand them - most of the prices are in Swiss Franks (CHF) which is almost like dollar now (1 CHF = $0.99). Also there are prices in Russian currency “руб.”, thirty of such equals roughly one dollar. And there are prices in dollars too.
The names of the guys are probably insignificant cause you probably don’t know them, probably except Mr. Kadirov, leader of Chechnya, he is almost the leader in this list too. His watches are priced almost $300,000. Three hundred grands on his wrist.
The Canditate
“Who is your candidate?”, such slogans are not rare in Russia too. While other world discusses Palin in Russia another candidate celebrity got exposed recently to a general public due to her not very secure use of facebook-style Russian social network.
She was going to join one of Russian “Dumas” the legislative chamber. Some say that now she has even more chances.
What you see above was her official propaganda poster placed all around the city. What’s inside is what was found from her social media by Russian bloggers.
Brezhnev, Swimming
Brezhnev, a former Soviet leader, was very popular in Russia. Not for his achievements but for his love for two things: to kiss and to get medals.
During his last years as a head of the Soviet government, which also were last years of his life, he had bad health problems also, causing him to speak like a very ill person, be fond of kissing other diplomats he was meeting and rewarding himself numerous medals
Such activities though didn’t affect much on his meeting with former US president Carter and even signing some strategic treaties with him, they even appeared at TIME’s cover: (more…)
Fight for Democracy
What happens when a state was deprived of the democracy for many many years and then receives it?
Delegates of Russian and Ukrainian parlaiments use all the democratic arguments they have, including their hands and legs. A few days ago we had here a video of Mr. Zhirinovsky, Russian Parliament Chairman Deputy fighting with his colleague, today we have a democracy used on practice in Ukrainian parlaiment.
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Russian Parlaiment Chairman Deputy, He Fights He Drinks He Says “F**ck You Bush”
Just stop for a while and think what if in your country the second person in the parlaiment, the head of parlaiment would be like the Russian one, who makes all the crazy things below:
He walks almost naked in Russian winter when it’s freezing cold and… (more…)
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