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Artguide (Артгид) publisher accuses MTS phone company of plagiarism (kotomish, in Russian). Looks like he has a case.

Meanwhile: MTS Red Graffiti urban art advertising campaign (MTS).

The complete(?) хрус team potato-crisp advertising campaign (Youtube) (thanks, MK). Below: artist vs devil.

Going against worldwide trend, Russia attempts to increase amount it will owe for pensions in future (Businessweek).

Interview with Erik Bulatov (MK, in Russian). Bonus: influence of Erik Bulatov on contemporary Russian advertising, below.

Ubiquitous in Moscow shock ad: people are using cigarettes to cut their veins and you don't care?!

Lithuanian foodstuffs emblazoned with swastikas arrive in Moscow shops (kpax).

How come (JTA)?

A Lithuanian court has ruled that a swastika is part of the country's historic legacy and not a Nazi symbol. The May 19 ruling capped a three-month case involving four men who displayed swastikas at Klaipeda's national independence parade. “It is not a Nazi attribute, but a valuable symbol of the Baltic culture, an ancient sign of our ancestors, which had been stolen from them and treacherously used by other peoples,” one of the defense witnesses said, according to RT, Russia's English news channel.

Xerox does Repin (via LJ radulova).

Tretyakov Gallery ad for the Night of Museums, 15-16 May.

Vinzavod on the Night of Museums (via LJ maratguelman).

Anastasia Volochkova in Snickers ad.

Orthodox designer wanted (via LJ mrparker).

 

Art Lebedev's logo for Femen women's group (via LJ tema).

 

Advertising

FSB require removal of Esquire ad suggesting there are gays in United Russia (adme, in Russian).

Bilain caught borrowing from Israeli singer (Kompromat, in Russian).

Seat-belt ad.

Soviet 80s anti-smoking propaganda (via avmalgin, where also bread and electricity conservation films)

Jawbone ad, Russian stereotyping (via LJ shtarker).

Eurotel International Women's Day-themed ad.

Stalin soft drink planned in Volgograd (The Other Russia).

Lufthansa was looking for a name for an A380 plane. They allowed the public to suggest names and vote. The name 'Stalingrad' was in first place. Then it disappeared from the leaders' board (d3ist, in Russian).

Provincial ad: Arsenal, Buy Wholesale.

Russian free newspapers are now chock-full of ads for prostitutes (stillavinsergei, in Russian).

Vitaly Komar New Symbolism 2009 NY Art Exhibition Ad (ebay). What is interesting here is what you are actually getting:

Original paper magazine advertisement from the year 2009 for an exhibition titled "New Symbolism" by Vitaly Komar to take place November 7 - December 24, 2009 at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY. The image shown in the ad is of a work titled "Cross and Sickle." The advertisement was carefully removed from a magazine.

It's a neat way to turn an old copy of Artforum back into hard cash I guess.

Cunning Russian Bear vodka ad (bestadsontv.com) (thanks, MK).

   
 

Avatar posters (via dmitrivrubel LJ).

Burger King in Russia ads.

Bonus: Rockerjoker, Amerika.

Stalin's face on soda (abc) (thanks, MK). Soviet chocolate named after Lenin's widow (Guardian) (thanks, MK). And: site of the Autonomous Stalinists (autonomstalinists, in Russian).

Text of advertisement for Thai cleaning ladies, spotted on Rublevka on way to Kandinsky Prize ceremony in Barvikha: They can speak English but not Russian (thanks, ED)! Actually, I apply that criterion when choosing interns.

Top Russian blogger drugoi accused of doing Land Rover product-placement and of banning unfavourable references to the car in comments (Ekspert, in Russian).

Marketing this and that (thanks, MK).

 

Prez Medvedev in Copenhagen.

Sochi 2014 logo.

 

Provincial ad: why you need Ikonza (via Adme.ru).

You can vote for the worst advertisement in Moscow (Sergei Stillavin, in Russian). Below: Our Meat Has Never Been Frozen.

Sullivan Room logos in NY and Kiev (via vikey-ua).

Car insurance from Mr Garant. Or something.

Advertising stuff. In Sverdlovsk advertisers have been banned from using the word офигеть (Adme, in Russian). And Salvador Dali advertises Inspiration (Вдохновение) chocolate.

24 October, Spar supermarket, Kolomna, promotion: Get Undressed And Take As Much As You Like.

Trademark dispute: auto vs avto. "The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has recognised the right of auto.ru to call itself avto.ru. And has forbidden the owner of avto.ru to use that name. The domain avto.ru was registered in 1999 by the well-known cyber-squatter Mikhail Sh." More here (dolboeb, in Russian).

Ad for Vikam work clothes, Novokuznetsk.

Subversive poster campaign in Moscow. None of the posters survived a day (stanis-sadal). Below: 

Have you built a successful business from scratch? Hurry! Tickets to London from £823.

The War On Beer. Russian government proposing ban on beer sales at supermarkets and kiosks (Forbes) (thanks, MK). This follows a ban on beer advertising (IZO, earlier). Also: Carlsberg to fight doubling of beer excise duty (WSJ) (thanks, MK).

The tale behind the phenomenally successful car insurance aggregator advertising campaign starring Russian aristo meerkat 'Alexander Orlov' (Advertising Age) (thanks, MK).

Posters portraying non-payers of communal living charges were put up in the town of Dzerzhinsk late last month (Vremya N, in Russian). Because of the public outcry, they've since been taken down (NIANN, in Russian). Below: HE OWES 9600 ROUBLES FOR HEATING AND WATER.

BBDO Moscow exploits 9/11 imagery (HuffPo) (thanks, MK).

"mfive creative group" produced this Russian vodka ad viral video (thanks, MK).

Domodedovo Airport to feature 3-D recreations of masterpieces from Tretyakov Gallery (RT). And I remember the days when the only ad at Sheremetevo arrivals was a huge billboard from the Night Flight club telling you to "Do It Tonight".

Cheap Soviet-era cigarette brands making a comeback in Russia (Market Oracle).

Designer Tema Lebedev suggests the city of Perm appropriate the letter П (P) for image-building purposes (maratguelman).

Hands off hot Russian brides (Domain Name Wire) (thanks, MK).

On the anti-beer campaign (WSJ) (thanks, MK).

Sculptor Alexander Ney creates beautiful structure of DiMora’s forthcoming $2million car (Luxurylaunches.com).

Gourji is a new Russian luxury brand based on "the history and traditions of this vast Eurasian land" (Kommersant, in Russian) (thanks, NI).

What a Good Boy: Israeli Lotto ad in Russian.

Russian porn star accepts $500,000 to have a company logo and URL tattooed on her chest for two years (Wallet Pop). Thinking about it, who wouldn't?