| January 2012 |
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It’s been a depressing kind of week, so I want to take some time to talk about a new video game which offers up some impressive new ways of killing people - and by that I mean, of course, “The Darkness II.”
I’ve had enough of covering all the protests and rallies in Moscow over the past few weeks (with still more to come) in the freezing cold and took the opportunity to do something else in the cold I’ve never done…
A special page has been set up on YouTube by user vote4putin, where the likes of theater director Oleg Tabakov, conductor Valery Gergiyev, actress Alisa Freindlich, Theater of Nations founder Evgeny Mironov, and even Eurovision winning singer Dima Bilan endorse Vladimir Putin for president.
I hate Valentine’s Day. This wasn’t always the case - I used to think of it as a good excuse to drink wine and receive useless, pretty gifts - but then I grew up. Now I dread this yearly celebration of the Romance Industrial Complex every year - and am always glad when it’s over.
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The hacking of private email accounts and the leaking of personal conversations online is old news on RuNet.
I’m calling in all those promises, debts and dreams that were given an abrupt answer of “When Hell freezes over!” that I’ve heard ever since childhood. It’s finally happened!
If you work in Russian media, you treat the phrase “British scientists” as a kind of joke - because there is so much research that’s constantly being attributed to “British scientists” out there that it’s hard to keep track of what’s fact and what’s fiction.
Hurray! Awesome! Way to go! J.K. Rowling has totally predicted the future! We have invisibility cloaks now! Well... sort of.
Ever since the opposition rallied on Bolotnaya Square and marched down Prospekt Sakharova, RuNet has been ablaze with intellectual (and, sometimes, hardly) discourse on the upcoming presidential elections and the country’s future.
The Thirteenth Apostle was in town earlier this week. The Judge of the Whole Universe. I am not kidding. His name is Theodoros II, and he is the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.
RIA Novosti would like to introduce to its readers its group of bloggers who will be writing on topical events in Russia and beyond. Feel free to join in their discussions and share your views on the topics they will be covering, from IT and religion to everyday life and entertainment. The number of bloggers, a mix of ex-pats and Russians alike, will be increasing with time as interests grow in finding out more in-depth information on specific topics.
Again, let’s welcome them and hope that you will also become actively involved by sending in your comments, questions and suggestions.