For today's football game between Russia and Spain we prepared a useful phrasebook, which will allow you to express yourself to the full extent.
User's Manual:
Spanish (Russian transliteration) - Russian (English transliteration) - English
Hijo de puta (ихо де пута) - сукин сын (sukin syn) - son of a bitch
Cabron (каброн) - козел (kozel) - asshole
Maricon (марикон) - пидарас (pidaras) - faggot
Mierda (мьерда) - гавно (gavno) - shit
User's Manual:
Spanish (Russian transliteration) - Russian (English transliteration) - English
Hijo de puta (ихо де пута) - сукин сын (sukin syn) - son of a bitch
Cabron (каброн) - козел (kozel) - asshole
Maricon (марикон) - пидарас (pidaras) - faggot
Mierda (мьерда) - гавно (gavno) - shit
Sports results are important for our vulnerable national feeling. You see, being Russian is tough: in order to be happy, you have to feel better than the others all the time, it is simply in our nature. Commonly we use great national sports results to feel satisfied with ourselves instead of focusing on personal achievements. However, we've never been proud of our soccer results: even though this sport is perhaps the most popular in Russia, we never succeeded in any significant tournament.
2008 © photo by The Pioneer (Detkov) @ FlickR
That's why when everybody noticed that Russia had chances at the tournament, people went crazy: over 500 000 went on the streets in Moscow alone. They'd celebrate the victory until 8am in the morning, hug and kiss each other on the street. The atmosphere was pervaded with the feeling of total love and unity: something Russia needs really badly right now.
2008 © photo by The Pioneer (Detkov) @ FlickR
It was not about the victory itself but more about an excuse to shed off all the problems and aggression and start smiling to strangers and just feel happy.
2008 © photo by The Pioneer (Detkov) @ FlickR
That's why when everybody noticed that Russia had chances at the tournament, people went crazy: over 500 000 went on the streets in Moscow alone. They'd celebrate the victory until 8am in the morning, hug and kiss each other on the street. The atmosphere was pervaded with the feeling of total love and unity: something Russia needs really badly right now.
2008 © photo by The Pioneer (Detkov) @ FlickR
It was not about the victory itself but more about an excuse to shed off all the problems and aggression and start smiling to strangers and just feel happy.
Have you ever wondered what catches people's attention first, when they see a map of the world, election bulletin, your family photograph, or the Google website?
Well, now there's a tool called Feng GUI, which allows you to do exactly that: upload any picture and create a "heatmap" of it. The points on the heatmap show the main focal points and areas of attention on the picture.
While the tool can be very interesting for web designers, who can test prototypes of their websites, as well as photographers, and video makers (yes, they've got a video version of it as well – see a trailer at the end of the post – exciting!), we at Way to Russia were really concerned about the impact of Feng GUI on our motherland, that is Russia.
The first thing that came in mind, was to scan the recent 2008 President Election Bulletin, and look what we found:
Well, now there's a tool called Feng GUI, which allows you to do exactly that: upload any picture and create a "heatmap" of it. The points on the heatmap show the main focal points and areas of attention on the picture.
While the tool can be very interesting for web designers, who can test prototypes of their websites, as well as photographers, and video makers (yes, they've got a video version of it as well – see a trailer at the end of the post – exciting!), we at Way to Russia were really concerned about the impact of Feng GUI on our motherland, that is Russia.
The first thing that came in mind, was to scan the recent 2008 President Election Bulletin, and look what we found:
