Tag: Rusky Beat
Behold the beach season in Odessa, Ukraine, where all your beach needs are attended to by an ever-adapting class of beach-side vendors on the beach! Want some hot boiled corn? Take a picture with a monkey? Buy some salty fish from the one that looks like Kate Bush the militant sea-captain? Pet a snake. Balloons, also. There […]
Look at that little kid getting down to wobbly Russian dance music. Smooth little bastard. Look it. He wears his shades INSIDE! He pays no mind to the provocatively gyrating teenage females in his proximity. He’s just there to feel the music. Somewhere in the ’90s. YouTubed without attribution but entitled epically “Russian Kid At […]
We first encountered Russian art student Peter Pavlesnkiy when he protested the trial of feminist punks from Pussy Riot by sewing his mouth shut — a classic! — and standing stoically until his banner was ripped from his hands. Two Pussy Riot activists are still serving years in a penal colony for seconds of anti-Putin performance […]
Six astronauts are coming to train at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert on April 20th. The Utah desert is very much like Mars in its terrain and its crushing loneliness. The Russians are coming specifically to practice “maintaining domestic life on Mars.” That sounds exciting. And boring. But exciting. The biggest challenge […]
Back in mid-February, billionaire Russian oligarch (and Chelsea Football Club owner), Roman Abromavich, set tongues wagging when he docked his super luxury yacht, the 533-ft Eclipse, at Pier 90, on Manhattan’s West Side. By tonight, it will have cast off to another pier and then back towards billionaire wonderland, from whence it came, according to […]
Oh, wow, that’s so cool man how you and your buds climbed those famous pyramids in Egypt and took some photos and Gawker’s like waaaahhh. Tell me about it in Russian. “One of the richest experiences of my life.” Was it now? How you climbed 450 feet upon extremely old and fragile architecture and how you had to hide out in […]
Oh, just so you know, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything Pussy Riot stands for, except for the blatant hijacking of their signature balaclavas and the “Free Pussy Riot” song Peaches wrote for Pussy Riot. Every possible explanation that lingerie brand’s ad department is seeding into the YouTube comments by dropping the FreePussyRiot.org […]
After the public trial and imprisonment of Pussy Riot, two of the activists are currently serving two years in some of the most dangerous and notoriously decrepit prison work camps in Russia… for 40 seconds of dancing in a church. According to activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband Peter Verzilov, Tolokonnikova spends eight hours a day sewing these outfits. Things weren’t exactly cool […]
Best. New. Tumblr. Behold: Russian Life, as Explained by the National. Self-explanatory. I mean, unless I have to explain to you again why the Russian “election” Putin-Medvedev-Putin switcheroo is a good fit for “Anybody’s Ghost.” Everything, right here: Anna Chapman, Pussy Riot… with perfect mash-up-meme-pithiness. […]
So, it’s March 8th, International Women’s Day. Russian immigrants give their moms’ a call. Most former Soviet Socialist Republics celebrate similarly. Others, around the world, protest glaring inequalities and abuse. It’s only appropriate that in the neu-repressive Russia, dozens of protestors were plucked from several demonstrations around the city and arrested for “administrative misdemeanours for […]
