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Despite the videos on YouTube showing dangerous drivers in Russia, this blogger has uncovered statistics that suggest America is more dangerous. Netizens disagree.
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Moscow authorities appear to have been caught out Photoshopping snow off roads instead of actually sending teams out to clean them, according to one blogger.
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Police have arrested teenagers from Yaroslavl for selling dried herbs under the guise of marijuana. A case has been opened under the charge of large scale fraud.
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Putin has been called out by bloggers, who have caught him reciting verbatim from a speech given by Ivanov in October, about the separation of church and state.
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Netizens mock the St. Petersburg local lawmakers for passing amendments to their noise nuisance laws that forbid loud snoring and cats from walking around at night.
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Approximately six times a year, to celebrate the town's history, Volgograd will be renamed Stalingrad. It will happen on days of remembrance, and is not permanent.
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In a suburb of Moscow, a train was stopped at a station by around a hundred teenagers, who then spent 20 minutes spraying graffiti on it before disappearing.
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Moscow's municipal transport agency plans to regulate the popular form of transport, characterised by minibuses and foreign drivers, over the next two-three years.
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A poor mother of two has made the news after explaining how she lives on 43 roubles a day, and netizens have rushed to her assistance, offering food and money.
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Russia's national airline, Aeroflot, have opened a competition to celebrate their 90th birthday allowing netizens to create a design to be painted onto a plane.
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Over the course of the coming year, a new service will allow Muscovites to book a place in a graveyard online. The service will not be available for the living.
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Netizens discuss vegetarianism in response to the news that members of a British social network are gathering signatures to stop the hunting of wolves in Yakutia.
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An unusual appeal to the Constitutional Court sees a lawyer asking whether a sentence imposed by a sleeping judge is legal, after posting a video to YouTube.
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A new bill is being drafted to set a time scale for the introduction of a new electronic smart card to replace the old style domestic passport issued to Russians.
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A Russian-bred draught horse is a source of immense nostalgic pride for netizens when it pulls a Polish car out of a snowy ditch with ease from a standing start.
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Famous American pornstar turned actress posted in broken Russian on twitter a question about Russian citizenship that has set the Runet ablaze with speculation.
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Netizens wonder whether the hundreds of millions of roubles spent on new interactive touchscreen panels at bus-stops in the centre of the capital are worth it.
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