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This video has hit the Runet, showing what appears to be a strange courtship ritual in a rural part of Russia, involving a man and a woman dancing and fighting.
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In Kazan, a group of 200 people have cooked the world's longest kebab. The kebab was later donated to a nearby orphanage after it was cooked - all 180 metres of it!
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Russian netizens are finding it hard to believe the incredible knife skills shown by the man in this viral video, who plays table-tennis with three sharp knives.
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Alexei Navalny has stated in an interview he thinks Russia should reintroduce an option that appeared on ballots under Yeltsin allowing people to vote "against all"
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This video which would appear to be a home video made by a firefighter has been circulating on the Runet, and Russian netizens have expressed nothing but respect.
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Greenpeace activists who stormed an oil rig to hang a banner asking us to save the arctic have been charged with piracy by a Murmansk court, netizens are shocked.
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Russian netizens love a new viral video that has come out of a man destroying eggs in twenty different ways in the style of a First Person Shooter computer game.
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A recent survey about world leaders' handling of the Syria crisis has found Vladimir Putin to be the most popular politician in America, beating Obama by 20%.
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A tornado hit the town of Dagomys earlier this week, and was captured on video by this dashcam. Nearby Sochi will be home to the winter Olympics in a few months.
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Netizens are skeptical about a story that is currently going around that an aeroplane has been standing at Sheremetyevo airport for six years holding 20 bn euros.
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Vladimir Putin's crude drawing of a cat on an electronic whiteboard has become a meme on the Russian internet. Sasha Siniy has kindly collected some of the best.
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A Mr. Vitaliy Raskalov (perhaps a pseudonym) has taken photos of himself riding a scrambler motorbike through a semi-deserted metro station, to netizens disdain.
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In a recent post on The Village, a netizen asked if fuller-figured women have the chance to have a happy personal life, and received some interesting answers.
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US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has admitted he lost an armwrestle with the Russian president years ago when the politicians met in America and went to the pub.
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An interviewer tells Putin that the Nato rocket shield is not against Russia, it's against Iran, and he breaks out into uncontrollable laughter. Netizens laugh too.
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A dentist in Chelyabinsk has been fined for an advert that shows a father smiling as a doctor holds a black child despite both him and his wife being white.
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Netizens are unsure whether to mock or empathise with drivers in this short video which shows them flying over a speed bump, marked only by a roadside sign.
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