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As far as intelligence technology goes, Britain’s infamous spy rock remains a bit of a letdown - despite the fact that it has been confirmed to be genuine after all.
My job as a correspon- dent puts me in some really wild scenarios. Take for instance boldly taking a swim in a river when it’s 10 degrees Fahrenheit…
Last year, Russian Internet users got a little sick of Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia - his face with its searing gaze, used on banner ads asking for donations to Wikipedia, became an amusing meme.
The head of Roskomos, Vladimir Popovkin, has insinuated that the embarrassing failure of Phobos-Grunt (which I wrote about earlier) could be attributed to a shadowy plot of some kind. “I don’t want to blame anyone, but there are powerful means of affecting [the performance] of spacecraft out there,” Popovkin told Izvestia. “We cannot discount the possibility that they were used.1
Russia is finally starting to crawl back to work after almost two weeks of rough binging and doing nothing else. The holiday season is rough on everyone and not just expats…1
This year’s Christmas, which according to the ancient Julian calendar falls in the Russian Orthodox Church on January 7, was full of important messages, including the church’s elaborated position on the tense political situation in the country following the December parliamentary elections and the ensuing mass protests against alleged electoral fraud.
It’s official - Russia’s magazine Science and Life (Nauka i Zhizn) has named Orion the prettiest winter constellation, in a move that’s obviously meant to encourage more young people to spring for that telescope and take a look at the night sky.
I don’t want to get sappy, but we have lost a lot of big names this year. People who were always in the news and on television, people that we followed their every step practically. They’ve all faded from our lives in 2011…
One of the things that annoys me each and every holiday season is the amount of entitled whining that goes on after the kids open their presents and decide that the color of the gadget that mommy and daddy bought them this time clashes with the color of the sports car mommy and daddy bought them last time.1
Usually at around Christmas time you tend to see people “caring and sharing.” However in many large cities this aspect sometimes takes a back seat. This morning on my way to work I saw an outlandish example of Russian “pofigism” in Moscow…2
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