Around 5 million tourists visit Sochi every year – spending on average $50 a day at the seaside. The value they get for that expenditure is an issue that needs to be addressed. Wine at $30 per glass in one restaurant retails at loss for a whole bottle in a nearby shop. Oleg Panichev, Vice [...]
Category: Unusual News From Russia
September 21, 2009
June 2, 2009
Great Bustard Back!
““In 2003 a delegation from the UK visited us. They had read our work on the great bustard population and decided to look us up. They offered their cooperation, and the programme is now in its fifth year,” explained Anatoly Khrustov, the Saratov Head of the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution.” The Great Bustard [...]
May 5, 2009
April 14, 2009
No Cussing: Omsk Region in Southwestern Siberia!
It is against the law to cuss now in the Omsk Region in southwestern Siberia. The use of a bad word will now cost residents of Achairskoe village from $6 to $16. The higher fine is put in effect if you cuss in front of children. Sofia Arefyeva the head of the village administration in [...]
March 23, 2009
Ukraine Asks Russia For Money!
Ukraine has asked Russia for 5 billion dollars. (That is 5,000,000,000 dollars.) After all that Ukraine has done to bad mouth and degrade Russia now they come on knees and ask for Money to pay bills. What about America giving them 5 billion dollars? That country that got them into the Russia hating business. (America) [...]
March 7, 2009
Russia: No I will Not Peel Potatoes! (Oy)
Hi, In Russia: at the Penza area, a man was stab in the eye by his new wife after he refused to peel potatoes! The man had met this woman after she had gotten out of jail for murder and fell in true love. They got married and soon after he refused to peel the [...]
February 17, 2009
Russia: Siberian Bears Incognito?
In the Siberian region of Kemerovo say they’ve encountered big furry humanoid creatures near the Azass Cave in the Tashtagol area. These creatures are about 2 meters tall and resemble bears in colors of brown, red and black. Scientists from a local university and local hunters are coordinating with each other so that when the [...]