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  Russians Spend Enough To Buy House in Drinking Game
  Two Russians competing to have the biggest tab ended up spending £130,000, enough to buy a house, an Aston Martin, or, apparently, more than 84 bottles of champagne
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  Longest Kebab In The World Cooked in Kazan
  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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  Alexei Navalny Suggests An “Against All” Option on Ballots
  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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  Pierre Richard Releases Wine Range to Compete with Depardieu
  After Gerard Depardieu's entry into the Russian wine market, and recent legalisation of Georgian imports, Pierre Richard has entered Russia's growing wine market.
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  Greenpeace Activists Charged with Piracy
  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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  Football Fans Arrested After Participation in Mass Brawl
  Thirteen football fans have been arrested in Russia following a mass brawl, that the alleged participants claim there is no way they could have been involved in.
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  Putin More Popular than Obama in US, Says Survey
  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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  Tornado in Olympic Town Takes Netizens by Surprise
  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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  Aeroplane with 20 Billion Euros on Board at Moscow Airport
  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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  Russian Literature “the Best Source of a Child’s Sex Education”
  Pavel Astakhov, the commissioner on children's rights has said that he believes the best source of sex education for children to be traditional Russian literature.
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  A Cat Named Navalny Is Stolen and Held for Ransom in Moscow
  A Muscovite has paid 5000 roubles in the hope that her cat is returned safely. Russian netizens discuss the political reasoning behind it.
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  Russian Girl Asks If She Can Find Happiness as a Larger Lady
  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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  Opposition Politician Wins Mayorship in Yekaterinburg
  Straight-talking opposition candidate Evgeny Roizman has been elected mayor of Yekaterinburg. Netizens are split as to whether this heralds a new era of politics.
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  Young Nazis Create a ‘Whites Only’ Carriage on a Tram
  As nationalists stop migrant workers from the Causes boarding a tram in the Southern city of Saratov, netizens discuss what it is to be a 'full-blooded Russian'
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  Putin Beat American Congressman in Armwrestle
  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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  MP Tweets a Racist Photoshopped Picture of Barack Obama
  Olympic figure skating champion-cum-MP tweets a racist photo of Barack Obama, stating her actions are 'freedom of speech' and the fact the picture is "American"
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  Company Fined for Advert that “Offends Family Values”
  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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