“Are you the Russian Snooki or The Situation? Are you a super outgoing and fun-loving Russian-American that sometimes sneaks kalbaska, pel’meni and vodka from the fridge? Can people hear the Euro/Techno/Russian music blasting from your car before they see you pull up? Do you attend birthday parties at Russian restaurants every weekend? If so, we may want to cast you for a new reality TV show that centers around a group of Russian-American strangers living together in a house on the shores of Brighton Beach for a summer. The cameras will roll as you do what you do best — eat, drink and PARTY.”

http://www.brightonbeachshow.com/

Like Jersey Shore, but with sovoks!

Kindly be advised that we have updated our web site with 98 new Rare Stuff which

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You will find in this update 8 Rare CD’s for modern Talking which is more than Great

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Hello, Andre, Boris, and Vadim:

My name is John Wilpers. I am the Global Blog Coordinator for GlobalPost, a new international news organization set to launch on Jan. 12 (see http://www.globalpost.com).

My job is to build a list of blogs that will appear on GlobalPost where we will have approximately 65 correspondents in some 46 countries. We are looking for enlightening, informative posts from bloggers writing (in English) in those countries.

I am pleased to extend an invitation to you to have the most recent post of Sovok of the Week included on the Russia page of GlobalPost.com as part of our “Global Blogs” service.

After reviewing thousands of blogs worldwide, we have found Sovok of the Week to be one that is thought provoking and gives readers a true sense of what life is really like in Russia.

The way it would work if you accept our invitation is that we would use your RSS feed to place your most recent post on your personal page on GlobalPost.com. We would point back to your actual blog for comments and for archives, hopefully driving lots of traffic to your site. Each time you write a new post, it would replace the older one so only one post would appear on GlobalPost.com.

By appearing on Global Post’s exciting new international news website, your words, viewpoints, and pictures would gain worldwide exposure. Your posts would not only appear instantly on globalpost.com but also possibly on the sites of our partners, including the Huffington Post (7.8 million U.S. and 9.7 million global monthly unique visitors) and other news and information websites.

You don’t need to do anything differently. We do request that you consider pointing back to us from your blog (we will send out logos shortly for your consideration).

You should know that we have a few guidelines that we observe here at Global Post:

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Due to the impending collapse of capitalism I cannot send a donation for this auspicious occasion, but I shall be thinking of both of you, Vadim and Boris, as I enjoy the beer and whiskey of friends, neighbors and parents!

Well done on the new show!

Glad to see the site still kicking!

-Tanning Roomate

It was not great, only limited to Petrograd.
It was not in October, but in November.
It was not socialist, but Bolshevik.
It was not really a Revolution, but an anti-Tsarist coup.

It is amazing how there are people who are trying to copy him! You know when an artist makes a big impact when people want to imitate him.

Wait.

You left out the link to your on-line dating profile.

“Greetings the stranger, are Written by me to you from the big country of Russia, I have read your profile, and you are interesting for me, I see you as a pleasant interlocutor, I wish to get acquainted with you better and to exchange photos
and not only. I will be very glad if our relations do not stop on that that we will communicate only on correspondence,
I’ll be glad to meet you one day.

I will tell a little bit about myself:
I’m very nice, sociable and cheerful girl.
I’m 27 years old, growth 169, my eyes are brown, hair dark, weight of 54 kg, a sports constitution. I regularly visit fitness the centre to support the figure both to be in shape and to like men.
If you are self-assured and trust that can deserve my attention that write)) we will look that will turn out…………)”

As one of the comments to your story said it, it has a lot to do with ideology, and I agree with that. Also, Americans love new things and like to feel good about themselves. Unfortunately, low attention span and lack of self-satire may contribute to the embrace of patterns with which you and I are very familiar with. Much work needs to be done in educating Americans on what it means to be a “Sovok.” Let the exploration continue!

DJ VadimJ

Sovoks are shopping at Whole Foods?

You know, I tried to write something about the similarities between “sovok” and contemporary America, but it devolved into an inability for anyone to agree on or get the definition of “sovok.” What is your expert opinion on the matter?

Failed attempt:
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/4/2/143519/2902

I’ve been meaning to call your attention to this very SOTW post from Neeka’s Backlog: http://vkhokhl.blogspot.com/2008/04/russian-or-perhaps-ukrainian-belarusian.html

Anyway, spasibo so much.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/27/europe/nostalgia.php

I am tired of Komsomol and empty rhetoric. I am tired of “freedom is not free” and “democracy for the Middle East” slogans-all empty words. What worries me is that Barak, the favorite of hipsters, vegans, and all the rest who call themselves progressive, might actually lose to McCain in November. All of his supporters sitting in trendy bars sipping microbrews will gasp in disbelief as a technocrat like McCain will be chosen by the American public as their next President. It happened before-remember Kerry? No one remembers him but he had fiery and inspirational speeches, too, and yet he was beaten by the pragmatic George Bush.

And, by the way, thank you for reading my blog, Megan!

Wait, then shouldn’t Sovok of the Week ENDORSE him?

I like Obama. I mean, one shouldn’t pay much attention to any campaign’s rhetoric. But whatevs, I can respect your endorsement and the reasons behind it.

Here in Madison, WI, there are many different types of hipsters. Let’s start with the most mainstream: the University of Wisconsin student. This student probably shops at Urban Outfitters and Ragstock, is internet and media savvy, showers on a regular basis, and goes to indie shows featuring bands such as the Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Rainer Maria, etc.

Then there are bike hipsters. A bike hipster is typically a twenty-something male with a tall, slender body, maybe black-framed glasses, snug jeans, and a fixed gear bicycle. The bike hipster is often found bragging about his fixed gear. He may have an awkwardly-placed facial piercing or randomly dyed section of hair.

There are the metal hipsters. These people do not know they are hipsters and will usually say “fuck hipsters”. But they are possibly the hippest of them all. Metal hipsters are usually very DIY, live in housing with 5 or 6 other people, have house shows, listen to genres such as ’sludge’, ‘doom’, and ‘grindcore’, drink awful beer such as Pabst Blue Ribbon, Stroh’s, Hamms, LaCrosse, Milwaukee’s Best, Blatz, or whatever they can afford from working part-time at the pizza place. Wisconsin metal hipsters are generally unwashed, don’t believe in much of anything, and are very awkward in social situations. The Wisconsin metal hipster is a bit more elitist in his or her taste in music and may still be into cassettes or getting some band’s new 7″ record.

http://www.readrussia.com/a_1_2007_10.htm