Just happened in Moscow

Streetfight, GTA style.

Flying donkey shocks beachgoers in Russia's south

Police in southern Russia will launch a probe into an initiative by local entrepreneurs who sent a donkey into the sky on a parachute in an advertising stunt.



The official spokesman for the local directorate of the Interior Ministry told reporters that the parachuting donkey incident took place last Thursday on an Azov Sea beach in the Temryk District in Krasnodar. "They gave this donkey a parachute ride in order to attract holidaymakers' attention to this sort of entertainment. The parasailing donkey brayed and the children cried, but no one was smart enough to inform the police about the incident," RIA Novosti news agency quoted the official as saying Monday. The police will launch a probe and if the entrepreneurs are found guilty, they could face criminal persecution under the article on cruel treatment of animals of the Russian Criminal Code, which carries a maximum punishment of two years in prison.

Orthodox Church is the basis for modernization

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"Orthodox christianity currently is the basis for modernization. I personally believe that Russian computers should be produced under supervision of Russian monasteries: smart prayers, smart design, smart monkhood. We believe that Skolkovo project should adopt orthodox center for innovations, just because the Church is the basis for modernization, not an obstacle", - says Kirill Frolov, the Head of Orthodox Experts Association.

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Fluffy apartment for rent in Moscow

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Want to live in a cozy fluffy studio in Moscow? Now renting for just $1300/month.

















Original classified ad:
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"I am a theft"

...that's the name of the book Russian policeman is reading. Quite a frank confession, huh?

TU-154 jet landed in the forest, all 72 passengers survived

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The pilots who managed to land a crippled Russian Tu-154M airliner in the middle of Taiga forest are back in Moscow. All 81 people on board miraculously survived after a mid-air failure of major electrical systems.

Squirrel Institute

Russian Institute for Protein Research ("Institut Belka",- Rus.) switches its specialization to Squirrel Research.
At least that's what their website says:



Seriously though, apparently someone at the institute got lost in translation: "Belka" in Russian could mean "protein" or "squirrel", but in English those are two totally different words.

Proof link