Sovok of the Week

Yes! According to the latest book by Kharkov historian, Aleskandr Zinukhov, the legendary 12th-13th century Mongol warlord was really born not on the shores of distant Lake Baikal but in Ukraine, near the site of present-day Kiev, to a happy Slavic couple named Isakii and Olena.

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Candymakers at a Moscow confectionary plant have created a delicious portrait of Russia’s most dashing “sweetheart,” Vladimir Putin. But don’t hang this in the icon corner next to your other saints! This Putin portrait is made entirely out of chocolate! Mmmmmmm, oligarchy……..

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Bulgaria is a prized vacation spot for a Sovok, as everyone who faithfully reads
our site knows. I don’t feel like I have to sing dithyrambs to it here. A Sovok
will find himself at home in this former Socialist republic. One recent report
proves this point very well.
Some Bulgarian Sovok enterpreneur [...]

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Just two weeks ago, our crack research team at Sovok of the Week reported that silicone-stuffed Pamela Anderson had become a Sunday school teacher. At the time, we expressed our understandable shock that such a travesty could come to pass. But more careful study suggests that Ms Anderson may well be suited for [...]

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“SOTW”’s Vadim and Klava will be absent . We will resume our activities around January 10th.
As you are walking through the streets covered with ice and snow, we will be basking in the rays of warm Sofia sun in Bulgaria.
We are thinking about you daily. We have a feeling that the [...]

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When I was growing up in Voronezh, “organic” meant that all the dirt hadn’t been brushed off the potatoes yet. Nowadays, “organic” means big business, as is evidenced from the crowds of shoppers lined up in front of the latest grocery store to open its doors here in Ann Arbor — the Whole Foods [...]

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Many of you have been mesmerized and intrigued by the fate of Anastasia Volochkova,
a Bolshoi ballerina who was fired back in September for her keen interest in
fatty junk
foods. We even nominated her as a "Sovok of the Week" (see our article "Sovok
of the Week Salutes" Bol’shaia Ballerina [...]

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This
week’s "Sovoks of the Week" are a bunch that remind us of the
good old 1980s in the USSR. You probably remember those people as "Komsomol" activists.
We have good grounds to back up our story since some of [...]

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Former bombshell Pamela Anderson, 36, has announced that she’s forsaken a life of debauchery and decadence to become a teacher at her son’s Sunday school. The hepatitis-riddled blonde starlet, infamous for fornicating on tape with then-husband rocker Tommy Lee, claims she is turning over a new page in her life and is ready to [...]

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