A video compilation of every single Russian Eurovision entry. The good, the bad, the ugly. And t.A.T.u.
Rothschild Faberge egg tipped to sell for record price
November 23, 2007 By
Got a few sparepennies burning a hole in your pocket?
Then you might want to head on down to London auction house Christie’s next Wednesday – as a part of Russian Art Week, they’re holding an auction of valuable Russian artwork.
Arts, books, silverware and icons worth an estimated $74 million are to go… Read the rest
Row brewing over Russian art exhibition in London
October 25, 2007 By
A row seems to be on the verge of starting over a Russian art exhibition in London.
The London Royal Academy of Arts is to host an exhibition of Russian and French masterpieces in January next year, but concerns are growing that the art will be impounded by the courts if anyone brings an… Read the rest
Kissing Policemen bring shame to Russia
October 12, 2007 By
A picture of two Russian policemen kissing in a snow-covered Siberian forest – an homage to Banksy’s kissing policemen graffiti – has been banned from appearing in an exhibition of Russian art in Paris.
And all because Russia’s prudish Culture Minister Alexander Sokolov thought that the picture – which according to artists the Blue… Read the rest
Miss Yakutia finalist was a man
April 18, 2007 By
Scandal hit the Miss Virtual Yakutia contest this year, when it was revealed that one of the finalists… was a man. Newslab.ru reports:
Anzhela Adamova was a young man called Oleg Goncharov, who decided to take part in the beauty contest by joke. He went to a stylist and after that made a portfolio at
Ukraine picks drag queen for Eurovision – upsets Russians
March 19, 2007 By
Ukraine, after winning the coveted (!) Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, seem to have decided to have a little fun with the event this year. They’ve picked Verka Serdyuchka, a drag queen who pokes fun at Russian women “of a certain age”, as their representative for 2007.
Predictably, everyone’s upset, from Ukrainians, who… Read the rest
Russian Winter Festival
January 13, 2007 By
To celebrate Old New Year’s Eve, I dropped by the Russian Winter Festival, held in Trafalgar Square, London this afternoon. Lots of music, dancing, and even an appearance by Grandfather Frost himself.
Full size pictures are below the fold:
Russia's 8th richest man arrested in "Pimping case"
January 12, 2007 By
Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has been arrested by French police in a sex scandal involving alleged prostitutes. Prokhorov is Russia’s tenth richest man, with a 54.8% stake in Norilsk Nickel.
None of the press agencies have quite come out and said it, but they are heavily implying that he was breaking the law by organising ‘parties’… Read the rest
Captain Kirk in Irkutsk
October 10, 2005 By
One of the joys of writing siberianlight.net is the random stuff I find while searching the net. Take this piece of Star Trek fan-fiction I found today on Technorati, for example, in which Capain Kirk takes a trip down memory lane and (almost) visits Siberia’s finest city:
“That is correct, Colonel. Our captain has
Solider Nixon
October 3, 2005 By
What happens when you try to buy Russian literature in small town Queensland?
So I asked the old half-deaf biddy in the second hand bookshop if she had any books by Solzhenitsyn.
“Soldier Nixon, I don’t think so. Are they crime or thrillers or what ?”
Brushing aside the concept that Stalinist era
Do you have a 'Big Russian Soul'?
August 24, 2005 By
I’m embarrassed to say that I took the test, and I most definitely do not have a Big Russian Soul.
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Cyrillic vs Latin: Battle of the Alphabets
August 15, 2005 By
Via Laurence Jarvik I found this article by Sam Vaknin. He wants Russia to abandon the cyrillic alphabet and switch to a latin one because, he argues, holding on to an archaic and over-complicated alphabet is holding back companies from investing in Russia:
According to the Russian headquarters of
Confessions of CCCP wearers
July 6, 2005 By
In a tale that in many ways mirrors my own ‘spiritual t-shirt wearing development’, Tim Newman explains his attachment to his CCCP t-shirt:
In some way I’m trying to project the image that I have a connection with Russia and its people, and trying to show that Russia still exists and
Eurovision 2005 – Kiev
May 22, 2005 By
Last night’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev was a spectacular success, despite earlier concerns that dodgy dealings over ticket sales might spoil the event.
From my perspective (sitting in London watching it on tv) the show, held on a fanstastic stage and in front of a raucously enthusiastic crowd, seemed to go off… Read the rest
