Sovok of the Week

We at SOTW are very busy this week, trying to pack our bags for our big August
vacations. In the meantime, enjoy this link and see whether you too have been
in Russia for far too long: LINK

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It seems that since they entered the “one billion club” Indian sovoks have been giving their Chinese counterparts a run for their money. Our Sovoks of the Week this week, in fact, come from the dusty district of Madhya Pradesh in central India, where local policemen have come up with a novel way [...]

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Life is hard, as all good sovoks know. So with summer upon us, it’s time to start thinking about the only brief glimmer of hope in a sovok’s life — the annual August vacation. For eleven months of the year life is a true struggle: waiting in lines at crowded grocery stores, bickering [...]

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Sovoks are big on promises. They will promise you the Moon and deliver a Sputnik.
A Sovok will promise you to love you till death does you apart only to be enticed
by long legs and luscious breasts of a new administrative assistant. Whenever
a Sovok promises you to pay “tomorrow” (ÒÚÛθ? [...]

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At times, when gloomy thoughts about my own mortality overwhelm me, I stop and
think what would happen to this spectacular site if I, the main technical person,
would not be around any longer. Since this is a low-budget operation thanks
to the chronic lack of funds and donations from our faithful [...]

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It is a well-established fact that Sovoks would bend over backwards to get a
good deal, or, better, to get something for free. Sovoks will tell you that
they look at the law as a challenge: one will truly succeed in life when he
could go around the law and not get [...]

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On Saturday, 3 July, the young Siberian tennis star Mariia Iur’evna Sharapova made sovok sports history by becoming the first Russian woman to win Wimbledon. At the tender age of seventeen, the shapely, supple blonde has accomplished what Kournikova, Alla Pugacheva, and Krupskaia all failed to do — capture the hearts, minds, and [...]

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As even the most casual viewer of Slavic television programming will tell you, sovoks love a good beauty contest. Nothing sets a sovokish heart aflutter quite so much as the spectacle of dozens of pretty girls dressed in their colorful national costumes and headresses, singing folk songs, and engaging in all sorts of behind-the-scenes [...]

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