Sovok of the Week

This will remind some readers of DJ Vadim’s last three birthdays. And that one New Year’s party. Oh, and the Ypsi Heritage Festival of 2004.

Link!

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Some of you might remember our former contributor André, who was fired for sending a bad check to “Sovok of the Week.” You see, dear readers, this site is operated and financed by none other than its contributors, and when we started out we were splitting all of our costs between the three of us-André [...]

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Someone pointed a great article to me and I thought I would share it with you.
Any gopniks out there reading this site?

-DJ VadimJ

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This is more Misha. Now I am release from jail, thanks god. They are locking me up for 21 days for crazy accusation but Misha is innocent as it is always. Misha will return this equipment anyway, just to make the point.

Here is why I write you: I am requiring the helps of my dear [...]

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In Defense of the Motherland My Status as Sovok
Okay, okay, so, in the aftermath of this whole Boris (or is his real name
Morris?) meltdown, Grushenka herself feels compelled to get something off her
chest.  (No, not those, they’re all real and they’re here
to stay!)  I was (she covers her face [...]

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Our
headquarters gets occasional letters from fans, and we are always happy to
publish them. After all, we are pretty busy, as you can tell from our postings.
Boris is stuck in Bulgaria-he keeps calling collect from Sofia demanding money
for the airfare to Detroit. As for me, I’ve made some [...]

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Hello out there. You never read me before on SOTW, but now I am making public
contribution for website. Basiccally I’m here to tell you I am vary piss
off from Vadim and Boris, Vadim most of all to tell you a truth.

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A few weeks ago many of our readers, being
the internet addicts they no doubt are, would most probably have noticed
the DDoS attack that left them without access to their mail-order bride
sites and various other web-based necessities. You [...]

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All He Needs Is Love…
Grushenka here, once again, with all the juiciest and most vital gossip
from Abbey Road.  As I pen (well, type) these very words, our aging
sovok sisters the world over are rejoicing and breaking out their sexiest
go-go boots and glitter mascara.  [...]

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Japanese
WWII soldier found alive
A Japanese
ex-soldier who disappeared after World War II and was officially declared
dead in 2000 has turned up alive in Ukraine.
Japanese Sovok spends
[...]

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The LA Times reports that science has finally proven what every Russian worth
his salt has known all along:  Napoleon was a louse. 
Oh, no, I’m sorry, I’ve gotten it wrong, somehow.  Apparently,
crack scientists at the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille, France,
have cleared Napoleon’s good name and demonstrated that [...]

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One of our readers, Mr. Sovok, shared a story with us which we simply could not keep secret from the rest of our readership. It appears that Mr. Sovok wanted to engage in the burgeoning mail-order bride trade by meeting on the Internet a nubile Russian girl Ekaterina . Here is what Mr. Sovok wrote: [...]

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Though French in origin, Charles-Pierre Baudelaire thoroughly imbued his work
with true Sovok spirit, earning himself a place of dubious distinction among
SOTW’s Prozac Poets of Despair. Sovok is not merely a person but indeed
a way of life, and Baudelaire’s poetry displays such overt Sovok-ishness
that we may look beyond [...]

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It may be a huge surprise to all 5 of you, our loyal readers, but we do get occasional letters of support and encouragement. This time, the letter contained a couple of pictures that we thought you might enjoy.

This is what our reader Neil (wink-wink, the one that got the mug … no [...]

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As every Sovok knows, information can be a dangerous thing. Those coupons that
you drop on the counter while doing grocery shopping are not intended to be
seen by your neighbors who will immediately realize the obvious: you are cheap
and a penny pincher. No matter how hard you try to show [...]

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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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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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I was just reminiscing with my smoking buddy downstairs about a "meal" that I had 2 years ago in Yerevan: My Armenia office manager, Gagik, invited
me and my technical assistant Konstantin to "a traditional haash pot" breakfast
at a funky restaurant I had been to before (which I refer to as The [...]

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