A Russian Corporate Tradition: The Sleazy Calendar (NSFW)

Every year, some of Russia's largest and well-known companies create calendars that would be quite inappropriate in the U.S.

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Maxima is a large communications and internet company with 50 million customers.

Every person in these images is an employee of the company, according to the captions.

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The theme of this calendar is to show the competitive advantages of Maxima.

If you know Russian, please comment on the translations of the headlines.

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I wonder if the women got paid to pose nude?

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Now, imagine Verizon doing something like this.

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This is the Eve-themed cover.

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Two years ago, Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, got a lot of international flak for produced a very NSFW calendar for VIP fliers featuring a fully naked flight attendant.

Last year, the country's 2nd largest mobile phone operator released a sleazy illustrated calendar.

See more months from the Maxima calendar here (NSFW).