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An office clerk loses his rag in a Moscow office. Apparently he'd just been told that he wouldn't be receiving his expected bonus: the exact words of the man who speaks to him before his outburst are reported to have been: "So, you were looking forward to a holiday in Thailand, but now it's the Crimea." Surveillance cam and mobile phone footage (Komsomolskaya Pravda, in Russian).

UPDATE: apparently it's not merely a fake but a viral promo by Timur Bekmambetov!!! (Wired); designed to promote Wanted.

Saatchi Moscow ad for GMail (Youtube).

Soviet-era (1990) ventilation ad:

It's a new meme or what?

A photo taken today in Dagestan. The poster reads: Seeing how they defend their country and Russia, I have begun to love Dagestan and Dagestanis even more. Via another-kashin, where there are more interesting street snaps (thanks, NM).

Great minds...

...think alike?

!

;) (in Russian)

Gorby in London

At last.

Margaret Thatcher circa 1984: "I like Mr. Gorbachev . We can do business together. We both believe in our own political systems. He firmly believes in his; I firmly believe in mine. We are never going to change one another."

Bagman

I missed this. Gorby by Annie Leibovitz, backdrop the Berlin Wall, advertising Louis Vuitton (from New York Times).

Big, bigger, biggest

Russian gigantism is alive and well in the hands of the admen.