Big doll

Men found

"Today three Russian climbers lost in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan for 2 weeks established contact: one of the hikers called his wife and said he is OK". -- Russian TV news report.

Opening of Olympics, Russian TV commentary

- Some 200 girls carrying the names of the countries in the ceremony are selected from millions for their appeal, we can vouch for this. They were eager to get to know our second commentator Vyacheslav and he responded to them in the same way. As for myself, I've got a nice girl in Russia...
Vyacheslav: uhm... indeed. Moving on with our report,...

Ad compain for Russia

Apparently this ad ordered by Russian government from a western ad agency was quite controversial in Russia. I find it quite funny though.

Life of rich and famous

My induction to the Moscow bohemian life happened a couple of days ago with introduction to the up and coming actresses Daria and Ekaterina Nosik (and yes, they are twins). We watched their performance in a basement club aptly called Schwein which was cool, since the place is so tiny and the stage is close to the tables, and then chatted with them a bit.

icml

a snippet of a dialogue at ICML:

person introducing: Stewart
me: pardon?
person: Stewart. Stewart Russel.
me: *stunned*
me: the author?
SR: yes
me: I have all the editions.
SR: Do you have Russian edition?
me: *stunned*

Helsinki, Redrum

Went to this club last night: Redrum. They promised a "famous" japanese dj, and delivered one, but I actually liked their in-house DJ better. The guy talked a lot and declared himself the ambassador of reggae.