Sovok of the Week

"
Sovok of the Week" is on vacation until mid-January. As usual, we encourage
you to buy T-shirts from our
store.
Happy Holidays!

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According to several reports, the favorite delicious dish of Ukrainian Sovoks
has just received an update. The gourmet-food craving Ukrainians have always
wondered what they could do to raise the level of fats and cholesterol in their
beloved
salo and, finally, they came up with an answer. What else but dipping [...]

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Pravda recommends the local website
sovokoftheweek.com.
Invented by two
U-M grad students named Vadim and
Andre, along with their friend Boris in
Minnesota, it was recently featured in the
Moscow Times, too. The site is [...]

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Sovoks are no strangers to lining up outside of a store and waiting for their
turn to buy a product. The lines in the Motherland for highly desired goods are long
gone but the Sovoks in other countries have picked up this memorable and persistent
tradition
as
the following story [...]

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Sovoks are a rather ingenuous lot. They will see an opportunity and will proceed
to rake in profits in spite of legal and moral implications. In order to illustrate
the lengths Sovoks will go to for quick self-enriching, we present you a riddle
that you will have to solve. Please, click “read [...]

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Boris Yeltsin is hopping mad! According to a recent report in the Manchester Guardian, the same American spin doctors who are guiding Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California gubernatorial campaign are claiming that they helped our beloved Boris Nikolaevich to win reelection in 1996. And now, to make matters worse, their exploits will [...]

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Those of you who know me will testify that I am a big fan of art. I can tell you in a second the difference between Dali and El Greco. I visit art galleries weekly, occasionally with Aunt Klava whose sharp mind and keen eye can determine the price of any piece of art. In [...]

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American car thieves have mastered the art of hot-wiring automobiles and speeding
away while their unsuspecting owners are sipping mocha lattes in some overpriced
coffee bar.
But rest assured that their Russian counterparts are no less successful in
their endeavors. Recently, in fact, a drunken bunch of sovoks in the god-forsaken
[...]

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J-Mo reports from San-Francisco: It seems that this Cambodian has some competition. The Russians are spending
3,000,000 dollars to build a radiation machine that is supposed to "damage" either
the virus or the CD4+ cells that it enters. Whether this will work or not is
unknown, but the leaders in the field [...]

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Echoing the recent pop-cultural boom and advertising frenzy, the corporate businesses are running out of models to put on their labels. Very soon Steven Hawking & Teddy Kennedy will be advertising products for Reebok, Nike and Adidas sportswear. But there still is an uncharted territory that will apparently bring Big Bucks according to “Jones Soda”. [...]

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While Noble Prize winners in pharmacy and microbiology are attempting to find cure for AIDS, a simple Cambodian woman invents an ultimate drug that will cure anyone from the plague of the 20th century. Believe it or not, but the cure was under our noses the whole time. The key ingridient is cow dung. The [...]

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According to some reports, the Latvian Army is unable to conduct its exercises since the Sovoks have inundated
the forests with their presence. The Sovoks in search of the edible goodness
of nature interrupted the shooting exercises since anywhere the glorious Latvian
strelki (shooters) would aim, they are sure to hit a [...]

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Since ancient times sovoks believed that the meaning of the name would guide the destiny of their child. They named their children Leonid after Leonid Leontiev (Russian answer to Michael Jackson), Alexander after Alexander Nevsky or Nikita after Nikita Khrushchev. The parents would watch the child grow, while hoping that he will become a [...]

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A Kaluga Sovok decided to spice up his taxi by installing a VCR which continuously
plays porn. This profitable venture is so popular among the passengers that
one has to book the porno-taxi several days ahead. Some passengers bring along their favorite tapes for the joy ride.
I hope that he has a sufficient [...]

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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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News Flash! We have made it to the Russian America Top 100, and we are not too
shabby #2.
Thank you for your visits and support!
 
Vadim, Boris, Andre

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In a true spirit of Sovok, some Iragis decided to cash in on an American craze and opened an outfit that they aptly called Madonal. Looks like the real thing, sounds (almost) like a real thing, but it is not. Sovok of the Week is saluting the Iraqi Sovoks!

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