Sovok of the Week

Those of you who were unfortunate enough to stumble upon the dribble which I
reported on from San Francisco last week will probably be surprised to know that
not everything in San Francisco is related to gay militants and deviant sexual
behaviors. Those of you that know me will additionally know that I, as a good
sovok, don’t venture [...]

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Tragedy struck the sleepy hamlet of Pavlovskii Posad in Moscow Province when amateur gardening enthusiast and full-time sovok, Nikolai Salakhov, was knocked unconscious by an enormous forty-pound pumpkin. According to the Ananova News Service, the hapless horticulturalist was merely sitting on his balcony when the massive pumpkin, a cousin of the squash-and-gourd family, came [...]

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When I first came to the United States from Voronezh, it took me a couple of months before I got used to the way that American “supermarkets” work. Kroger, Meijer, Farmer Jack — these stores were so very different from the “Meat Store No. 5″ where I used to shop.

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"As
a peace-loving country, China will continue to pursue an independent, sovereign
and peaceful foreign policy. We will continue to observe the five principles
of peaceful coexistence, strengthen good-neighborly and friendly relations,
promote positive partnership [...]

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If you read the articles on this site regularly, you will notice that the phenomenon
of a Sovok is truly international. You will find here articles written about
Russian, American, French, Nigerian, Chinese etc Sovoks who are united in the
UNesque
proclivity
toward
bad sense of style, cheapness, and [...]

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Sovoks are very fond of creative ways to solve simple problems and treating health is not an exception. Even practicality takes a perverted twist when sovok deals with it. I remember as a child, my grandfather, after reading directions on a box of pills and after using his “common sense” came to the conclusion that [...]

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Unless you have spent the last month in a GULAG, you have probably already heard
of Bubb Rubb. This African American Sovok has decided to stand out from the
crowd by the means of a little device
that he attached to the exhaust pipe of his ghetto-mobile. He and his girlfriend,
[...]

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Being a lazy person at heart, the sovok has the ability to look busy whilst doing absolutely nothing.  When not indulging in this pastime at work, there are many other ways he or she can enjoy the life of leisure and not extend oneself.  The komandirovka is one of these opportunities.
Your employer sends you to [...]

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Over the weekend, the editorial board of Sovokoftheweek.com held a two-day plenary
session to determine the winner of our First Annual Membership Drive Contest.
Our
task
was
dauntingly
herculean
in
its
scope.
Andre,
Vadim,
and
Boris
pored over hundreds of entries [...]

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This is California correspondent J-Mo signing on from sunny San Francisco.

Nowhere else in the world could you find such elaborate and creative thought
dedicated almost exclusively to the craft of bongsmanship. If sovoks were
to dwell somewhere over the rainbow then San Francisco would be [...]

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Our official Sovok of the Week (SotW) this week may be unknown to many of our international readers, but he has swiftly risen to the status of a folk hero here in southeastern Michigan, leading some (well, just us) to compare him to a modern-day Pugachev, a Stenka Razin for the 21st century. Ning [...]

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We present you a true story that was told
to a member of our site. The name and place have been changed to protect
the innocent. Other
details, some lascivious, are preserved. The story is rated ÏRÓ so
use your discretion.

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Having parents from the Soviet Union is both a blessing and curse.ÜUsually the latter when you start to analyze family relations.ÜThe psychology of the homo sovieticus is rarely seen outside the USSR, with the exception of the emigre family.ÜWho despite living in the free world for over a generation, still carry excess plastic bags, NEVER [...]

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Although most sovoks won’t admit it, they are a deeply prejudiced lot. Not racist, per se, but decidedly prejudiced. Indeed, how could they not be? Given that sovoks have an opinion (and a usually untenable one at that) concerning every topic under the sun, it’s not surprising, then, that sovoks have certain [...]

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Growing in a western country did nothing to dampen the desires of my parents
from the former Soviet Union in their desire to enjoy life to the fullest no
matter where if they were closer to the South not North Pole. Despite living
on the coast and within a 5 minute drive of the ocean, our parents took the [...]

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