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This two-minute video of a parrot singing an old Russian song, Belovezhskaya Pushcha, is hilarious, Russian netizens praise the bird's intelligence and talents.
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Pictures have surfaced on the internet of Putin standing with a man who looks like murdered crimelord Grandfather Hassan. Peskov denies that it is Hassan pictured.
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This YouTube video was posted a few days ago and is trending across the Runet, as drivers recognise their own plight recorded in this video of a driver's day.
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Internet comedy site Lurkomore is under fire again. After being removed from an internet blacklist last year, the Chechen Interior Ministry want it back on.
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In response to Putin signing the Yakovlev law, a blind young girl has written to him on her blog, urging him to adopt a disabled child himself and lead by example.
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A Moscow company is to offer a delivery service where for a fee, a remote control helicopter will deliver a parcel to anywhere in Moscow guided by a dispatcher.
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An old YouTube video of February's economic news is currently trending – what could netizens possibly want with out-of-date economic news? Watch and find out!
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Russian netizens are showing concern over photos of a 19-year-old girl, who appears to be suffering from an eating disorder. Netizens are worried about her health.
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A Kazakh woman has called her son Fir Tree. He was born on the night of December 31st – January 1st, and is named after the trees used to celebrate the New Year.
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Netizens despair as kiosk owners defy a law forbidding the sale of beer from anything other than a shop, that came into effect on the first of January 2013.
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Forbidden from snowball fights, people look elsewhere to release their aggression during the long winter. Netizens are intrigued and impressed by the performance.
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Netizens debate what Putin could possibly have said to cause this young boy to pull this face in a photo captured at a Christmas service in a convent in Sochi.
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Police in St. Petersburg have stopped a snowball fight due to take place in a park in the city. Two people were arrested, and risk fines of thousands of roubles.
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Vladimir Putin's New Year's address has caused a fuss on the Runet, as a number of bloggers accuse him of having a twin (or double) who delivered the address.
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French actress Brigitte Bardot has threatened to apply for Russian citizenship over an incident in which two elephants are to be put down at a circus in Lyon.
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Due to a lack of staffing, forced labour, due to become a possible sentence for minor offences this year, is to be postponed, according to the Kremlin website.
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Part of the ceiling of a brand new Moscow metro station has collapsed only five days after its opening. Netizens point the finger at corruption and embezzlement.
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Anna, thanks, this is a much better translation. I've updated the article to reflect your comment. ...8 years ago»
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