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

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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.

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Russia presented the new olympic games uniform. The designs are reminiscent of the 1950s, and the hats remind the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev's style.

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Check out our new interactive map of Russia on Google... You will find brief descriptions of the major cities, destinations, and train routes, as well as links to more information.

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We invite you to try out the new collaborative search engine for Russia powered by Way to Russia and Google.

You can choose which sites are searched and which results are given more relevance.

See the project's page or try out the search results:

Russian officials will allow the fans of Manchester United and Chelsea to enter Russia without a visa for the May 21st game. The visitors will only need to present a valid ticket for the match to be allowed to enter Russia. Football fans will be able to enter Russia from 19th until 23rd May and shouldn't stay longer than 72 hours.

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Currently we need a very experienced programmer / web person.

We also need talented writers.

See our Vacancies page.

The salary is $1400-$2000 / month and you can work from anywhere you want. However, it's a full time and full-on employment. You need to be a guru of programming and html to get this position.

If you're not a guru, you can also try, as we need less experienced people as well and we can transform you into a guru in 6 months.

The famous Russian Art Lebedev design studio has a very interesting internship program for foreigners.

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Since a few days you can see this advert made by Russian Tourism Office in Berlin U-bahn (metro):



Aside from the fact that this ad looks incredibly tacky, what else is wrong about it?

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The latest report from the internet information company Alexa owned by Amazon suggests that Way to Russia is among the most popular sites about Russia.

It comes ahead of Expat.Ru (110K vs 177K position in the ratings), and just a little behind the most influental Moscow english-language newspaper The Moscow Times (www.thesmoscowtimes.com has about 97K).

More information: Alexa site