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In some Russian shops nowadays you can buy yourself a bottle of a drink with a Harry Potter portrait on it. I highly doubt if any copyright was reserved, and the most interesting thing is not copyright here. The soft drink with Harry Potter face on it is named "BURATINO". What does this word mean? "BURATINO" is some kind of Russia Pinocchio. Same wooden doll moving around, but his nose doesn't grow when he lies. In Soviet Russia there was a

very popular soft drink named after him. So in modern Russia businessmen try to make their kind of "Buratino" drink so that to play on the nostalgie sense of the elder generation. But this Harry Potter Buratino drink is a mix of two totally different things in one. It's not a Buratino and it's not a Harry Potter. And notice there is somebody from Simpsons is also depicted on this cool drink.

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In Russian city Ekaterinburg there is a monument for QWERTY keyboard. It looks like white stones scattered across the lawn if to look from

some distance. But when you come closer you can clearly see that thouse boulders are keys and the lawn is the board.

soviet kids book about life in Soviet Russia

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This funny little book is from Old Soviet times. What is funny about it that it was printed in 2,400,000 copies! What an edition - the modern Harry Potter is not even close to it in Russia, though Harry Potter is considered to be popular in Russia too. What this book is about? It's teaching

youngsters about the Revolution, the Communism and the Red Stars of Kremlin. The price was 0.05 rouble, according to Soviet exchange rate it was around 5 cents. This price was normal for kids books in Soviet Russia. Everyone in Soviet school wore a star on his uniform.

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Here is another example of how popular is Russian theme is abroad now. This is an ad of Knorr

soup, they are making fun on Russian stereotypes in it. It's now on Dutch television.

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Russian theme becomes more popular accross the World. Here is an example, a video from

Basement Jaxx using all the Russian symbolics and scenery. Link by Xavi

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Probably some of you have seen this footage of a fight between Canadian and Russian junior hockey teams. Both of the teams were taken of the tournament after this fight. It was a

junior tournament, so all the players were younger than 20 years old. It has been said that the fight began by a Canadian player who hit in the back a Soviet one.

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It has been submitted to us that in Russia there are now condoms are been sold with the "Shawarma" flavour.

Shawarma (or shwarma, shawerma, or shoarma) is the Arabic meat dish, well known all around the world.

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This is a Soviet hymn, recorded by all USSR pop stars right after the USSR collapsed, in 1991. They thought this music and words would be now a part a history, because just a little bit later a new hymn appeared, with another music and words, so all people of Russia thought they are now living in a democratic state, without

traces of Soviet Union. But then a few years later, after the free goverment turned to be not so free, censorship in Mass Media appeared and.... Soviet Hymn was restored. Now, in modern Russia the hymn is being sung on the music of the Soviet hymn. Welcome back to a new USSR - Russian Federation.

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Balalaika and Bayan two Russian musical instruments. And here we have two music videos about Balalaika. First one is from Russian top singer from 80s, Alla Pugacheva. The

title of the song is simple: "Balalaika" The second is an example how to make an alternative music using Russian national instruments balalaika and bayan:

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There is an opinion that Russian roads was the thing that stopped the German attack in WW2. This might be true. Look how hard was to

advance for German Nazi troops across the Russia. This is just 100 miles from St. Petersburg. What a nice travel to Russia.

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