Video, film, and animation going viral and being shared in Russia on the Russian-language internet, including translations and background information.
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In the third such incident this week, the £250/300€ Olympic torch began flaming uncontrollably in the hands of Ded Moroz, Russia's equivalent to Santa Claus.1 -
Netizens become nostalgic after watching this video compilation of Russian clubbing in the early 90s although some ask if it was perhaps a little earlier than that. -
A young girl is engulfed in a fireball when she takes hold of the Olympic torch in Kostroma, central Russia. The girl is OK, but questions about the Olympics loom. -
A terrorist attack on a bus in Volgograd left some dead, and many more injured earlier on today. This dashcam footage captured the blast from just metres behind. -
A woman's unique dancing style goes viral after a netizen uploaded it to YouTube. Netizens alternate between laughing and defending the woman for her actions. -
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. -
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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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. -
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. -
As part of Esquire magazine's issue on the lives of ordinary Russians, Vasiliy was taken on his flight to New York. He compares his life to those of Americans. -
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. -
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. -
Vladimir Putin tested out an interactive whiteboard in an unusual way a few days ago, by drawing a picture of a cat – from behind. Netizens discuss what it means. -
Police are currently hunting a crocodile spotted in Ekaterinburg despite having no specific protocols to deal with it. Netizens are concerned about the croc's fate. -
Netizens are up in arms over a verdict handed down to a singer imposing a (relatively) small fine on a singer who kicked a policeman while refusing a medical test. -
Netizens are divided over a new trending video on the Runet of what appears to be Russian army soldiers singing the soundtrack to the James Bond fim "Skyfall". -
Holidaymakers near Kaliningrad were treated to their own private military show last weekend when a landing hovercraft ended up on the beach, scaring off tourists.
