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• UCLA Ranks Higher Than Berkeley!

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 13:53 in admissions, berkeley, Culture, Personal, rank, Ranking, school, uc berkeley, ucla, usc

  The traditional order of University of California schools puts Berkeley first, followed by UCLA. After California abolished affirmative action in entrance, however, the two schools have been equalizi...

• Russian Internet Day!

  Posted on Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 16:59 in blog, Culture, Dating, former soviet union, ICQ, internet, livejournal, meeting people, рунет, pictures, pop music, popular songs

  Happy Russian Internet Day! Runet Day continues the Russian holiday tradition by celebrating the Russian-language internet (рунет). Runet is used for two mains things: Meeting people and Livejou...

• How WordPress Has Changed My Life

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 08:18 in Culture, science and technology, video, wordpress

  Here’s an amazing story about how Web 2.0 is improving lives for all sorts of people:...

• Unwanted Cake

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 22:01 in cake, Culture, former soviet union, торт, pictures, russia

  “Nobody bought the cake, so he’s going home in the trolleybus. But to who??” This drawing reminds me of my first days and weeks in Russia. It captures the darkness (literally, the ...

• Leave Putin Alone!

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 07:40 in Culture, former soviet union, humour, parody, putin, russia, russian, video

  Leave Putin Alone! Оставте Путина в покое! A funny Russian parody of the famous “Leave Britney Alone” video....

• Beatbox Fame Game

  Posted on Monday September 15th, 2008 at 07:26 in Culture, humour, video

  How to make a break: Beatbox Fame GameUploaded by loranger...

• Browser Wars 2.0: Google Chrome

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 22:57 in browswer, chrome, Culture, Firefox, google, internet, opera, science and technology

  Does anyone use Google Chrome? I just downloaded it, but haven’t given it a whirl yet. I like the minimalism, but I also have a bunch of add-ons for my Firefox that I find essential. This is t...

• Where is the Center of Europe?

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 in belarus, belgium, center, Culture, europe, former soviet union, lithuania, monument

  What is Europe? It’s actually a harder question to answer than it seems. Europe is both a political, cultural, and geographic concept, and Europe’s boundaries within each one of those ca...

• Moscow Doesn’t Make it into International Monopoly!!

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 10:57 in Culture, ЖЖ, eastern european, former soviet union, international, Kiev, monopoly, russia

  Shockingly, and inexplicably, Moscow didn’t make it into the new international version of Monopoly. Kiev, Riga, and Belgrade made the cut: Hasbro held a contest earlier in the year: The most v...

• Tom Clancy predicted the South Ossetian conflict in Georgia

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 16:05 in Culture, former soviet union, georgia, russia, south ossetia, tom clancy

  From RIA-Novosti: Tom Clancy, author of the Hunt for Red October and a host of other military themed thrillers, predicted the South Ossetian conflict seven years ago. His story, describing Russia comi...

• Top Ten Communist Jokes

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 13:44 in Culture, russia

  The Times held a competition where people sent in their favorite communist jokes, and here’s their top ten: A copy of Hammer and Tickle will shortly be winging its way to Tom Freeman for the fol...

• Russian Military to Have New Uniforms by 2011

  Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 10:23 in Culture, former soviet union, pictures, russia

  Technorati Tags: Russia,uniform,military,портяни,portyanki Deputy Minister of Defense, army general Vladimir Isakov, reported that the Russian military will completely change to a new uniform b...

• Отпуск в нескольких томах

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 12:39 in books, Culture, russia

  Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 17 in /home/opaun/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/linked/linked.php on line 182 Warning: preg_repl...