Culture Buzz A bottle of vodka, a reverse dashcam, good tunes, and a passed out dude with a yoga mat. This is, apparently, how it's done.
Culture Buzz And probably more adorable, too. Thanks for making the rest of us look bad, little Russian boy!
Culture Buzz Russian artists Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich, a.k.a. People Too, hand-craft stories of “people, scissors, paper.” The results are amazing.
Politics Buzz Apparently not every Russian wants to see Putin serve another presidential term. Watch some jerks in Saint Petersburgh chuck a Pro-Putin advocate in water at 3°.
Food Buzz In Soviet Russia, bread cuts….are made swiftly and impeccably by a professional.
Culture Buzz These photos will turn your stomach. Krokodil is a street version of desomorphine, an opiate that's 3 times more powerful and 10 times cheaper than heroin, and has become an epidemic in Russia. It's so named because regular users develop gangrenous, scaly skin resembling that of a crocodile. Krokodil is made with such toxic chemicals that it rots the flesh and bones of its users. WARNING: Extremely graphic images.
Politics Buzz Normally voters are screwed by politicians, not each other. Seriously though, between this and the Medvedev Girls, Russian politics are turning into an episode of “Entourage” that has nuclear capabilities.
Culture Buzz An unedited version of the video in which a Russian woman with a poorly buttoned blouse does high speed donuts in a souped up car. Boob physics are fascinating.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_conce...
Remember when we went to that wildlife preserve? You whined about the cold like a little Ukrainian seal baby. Good times, good times.
Culture Buzz These Russian corpses are really Putin on the Ritz. (I'm so sorry.) Anatoly Moskvina robbed the graves of over two dozen women and then played dress up with their bodies in his cramped three bedroom apartment. The most horrifying episode of Hoarders ever.
Culture Buzz We can't be certain, but it was during a segment on strippers. So there's that.
In honor of his 59th birthday, here's a collection of some of the best (and worst) fan portraits of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on deviantART.
The next time you're in Moscow, keep an eye open for Alexander Ishutin and his bad motor finger. Sure it's a big city, but my feeling is his open road rock outfit would be pretty easy to spot. (via.)
Clad in very tight grey jeans, Alexander Lebedev is a Russian tycoon who owns two major papers in the United Kingdom. During a television debate on the financial crisis, the former KGB agent punched Sergei Polonsky, once ranked Russia's 40th richest man, in response to Polonsky's “threatening manner”. (via boingboing.net)