Culture Buzz UK artist and Photoshop extraordinaire Steve Payne has created a bunch of impressive contemporary celeb portraits based on George Dawe's iconic 19th Century military paintings. So if you ever wanted to know what Mr. T or Steve Jobs would have looked like as Russian generals, now's your chance.
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.
Culture Buzz Give a Russian a few drinks, and you'll get this jig. Well, at least from this guy. Happy New Year, everyone. (via ohhaveyouseenthis.com)
Culture Buzz We feel your pain, little Russian kids. Most adults feel this way about going to their jobs. (via viralviralvideos.com)
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°.
Culture Buzz @Horse_ebooks is a Twitter bot run by some Russian dude trying to sell you terrible ebooks about horses. To avoid being detected as a scam, he has devised the brilliant idea to post snippets from said ebooks randomly, resulting in these amazing tweets. They're quite poetic, and a lot more interesting than horses.
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.
Culture Buzz We can't be certain, but it was during a segment on strippers. So there's that.
OMG. The best part is when he’s like “I’m going to show you how we slice watermelon in Russia.”
Hmph. Maybe he's not rebuilding decks in Missouri after all. (via.)
Culture Buzz Awesome/creepy pictures by Russian photography couple, Sonia and Mark Whitesnow. More here.