Russian orthodox church offered to create patrol units, which would help police to keep the public order on the streets. This goes in line with a their general militant stance: a couple of years ago some orthodox priests were protesting against gays and you can often see them marching together with nationalists at parades.


(photo by Kommersant>

If you haven't read Sorokin's latest book "Sakharny Kreml" ("Sugar Kremlin") – you should. He's writing about Russian in 20 years time where the modern technology fuses with barbaric medieval customs reminiscent of Ivan the Terrible times. If the Russian church was given all the freedom it wanted I'm pretty sure Sorokin's stories wouldn't seem so fantastic.

Today's article in The Guardian "Tories deny discussing donation with Russian billionaire" is another example of blatant attempts from the media to portray Russians as some kind of evil beasts waiting to penetrate the Western world. Look at this picture they used:


(via The Guardian)

Doesn't Deripaska look like some stupid mafia dumb-ass on this picture? Perhaps you will be interested to know that this man was a math whiz in school, has a degree in physics from the best university in Russia, and managed to build an industrial empire from nothing in less than 10 years.

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The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, supports Dmitry Medvedev (currently 1st deputy prime minister) to become the next president of Russia, Russian business daily Kommersant reported today (see http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=834759).

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So, it became a bit more clear who's going to be the next president of Russia...

There's a peculiar fashion in Russia where some men love to carry around a male purse (nicknamed "murse" by Exile newspaper, which transformed it into a fashion item among Moscow expat community -- see http://blogs.waytorussia.net/item/21 ).



We at Way to Russia strongly endorse this fashion (and murse especially), so here is a music video about it starring me (Dmitry - aka Supaflex Supadelicious), Dan Perushev, Pasha Rassadkin and our friends. Russki Beat style...

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Russian fashion
How much do you know about Russian Fashion?
Perhaps you envision fur
coats and hunting boots with a speck of Italian brand names here and
there?

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Russians are some of the most annoying tourists showed a recent study by Expedia.Com conducted among hoteliers in major tourist destinations. Only French, Indian and Chinese tourists were found to be more annoying than Russians, who are closely followed by British.

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Denis Simachev is perhaps the most interesting contemporary Russian fashion designer. Taking his inspiration from old school USSR style, 90s gangsters, and modern high life heroes from Russia, he successfully mixes the concepts together producing cutting edge, provocative, sexy, and often funny clothes. For example, his recent Summer 2007 collection was recreating the atmosphere of the popular Soviet resorts of the 80s: Black Sea and Sochi. Men wearing newspaper hats, leather jackets, shabby shorts, and trashy tops, all immaculately cut and fitted. The t-shirts had the slogan "???? ???????", which means "Nothing Sacred". Take a look at the fashion show video here:



The most recent collection explores the world of gangsters and crime.

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Estonia is main theme right now!
We have two positions. But it’s not all minds. One more fight new Cold War?
Who knows…
What do you think about?
Read more...

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Way to Russia presents the new feature: interviews with artists, musicians, and writers related to Russia. It follows the original idea of the Russian People interviews, which we've done over the last few years, but this time it's not random people in focus :-)

This first interview is with Vlad Sokolov, dj and producer, the founder of Sokolov Sounds breaks music label. He's currently based in London performing in various city's venues as well running his own weekly radio show. You can hear some tunes from the recent Perestroika album on Vlad's MySpace page.

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