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Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Art

In one Russian town they have started publishing newspapers on... plastic bags that you get in grocery stores. The edition is always fresh, so each time

you get back from the store you can get your portion of news, puzzles and even ads before sending the piece of plastic into trash bin.

Categories Funny, Photos, Society

Those are not EURO bills, though they look almost like them. Those are prints of new social ad from Ukraine. If you look carefully on those bills you can see small depictions of young ladies standing near the buildings. There is a big problem of young women moving from Ukraine to Europe

for better life but working as prostitutes there. These ladies on the pictures symbolize those girls, and there are also small the words like "This is how much you can get leaving abroad illegally" pointing to the nominal cost of the 5,10 or 50 EURO bills.

Categories Business, Economics, Funny, Society

Russian biggest bank "Sberbank" has implemented mobile "Sberbi's" to attract new customers, but some

people say that looking at those creatures it's hard to believe in safety of their deposits.

Categories Business, Culture, Funny, Society, Video

Every week many of new videos appear in Russian part of Internet. Some of them become very popular and circulate among numerous Russian blogs etc. We often put them here too and now decided to collect them all during the week and publish in one separate post let's say on Sundays. So meet the first video Sunday. The first video was made by some Russian guys as an answer to the speech of Condoleezza Rice. It was that time when she expressed the position about Russian actions in South Ossetia and Georgia. The makers of this video replaced Condi with Darth Vader and ..., well, see it yourself above. The video got very popular in Russia last week. The

next video was widely discussed on Russian Internet last week. It's an ad from Pioneer electronics company saying "Better use GPS when travel to distant and unknown places". And now some Russian music. This video was a true hit last week among bloggers and others. It's an example of Russian gangsta-rap. The rising star is Slava Mook, was warmly accepted by many, many requests for mp3 and HD versions were posted and Slava promised to continue publishing his new songs. It's easy to become popular these days. Well, we stop here today, next Sunday see more Russian hits of the week.

Categories Funny, Photos, Society, Technology

Probably it's only in Russia where such well known corporation as

Intel uses tanks and young ladies to advertise itself.

Categories Funny, Technology, Video

This turbo turtle video actually is a viral video ad for one of the

Russian cellphone providers selling fast cellular modems for laptops.

Categories Funny, Photos, Society

It has been a while since we published works of Russian Photoshop Masters. Today we compensate this and have

two posts of two ads photoshopped by Russian bloggers. Meet part 1, it was originally a BIC ad.

Categories Photos, Technology

During all the April Russian geeks were waiting for the iPhone from Apple to be released in Russia. There were plenty of the signs: big billboards across the Moscow city made in Apple-style with the word "iSoon" in Russian and the date of April, 22st, 2008, itunes-store.ru webdomain with the same ad and many more "good signs" for those

who wanted the localized iPhone. All the geek communities had a major buzz on this topic too. But when the day X had come, it came out that they were all fooled. It turned to be a virus ad campaign by... Contex, the worldwide condom producer. They decided to advertise in this way their new condoms...