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    Bear Witness 4:14 am on September 11, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: competition, funeral, grave,   

    Russia has finished 7th at an international grave-digging championship in Hungary.

    The Russian team — a blogger and an employee of the Novosibirsk Crematorium — competed against 18 other two-man teams to see who could dig the fastest, most accurate and aesthetically pleasing grave.

    Competitors had two hours to dig a grave roughly 6 ft 7 in long, 2 ft 7 in wide and 5 ft 3 in deep, followed by 15 minutes to fill it back in and create a neat burial mound.

    Russia missed the required depth by just 2.8 inches and finished seventh.

    Last year they finished dead last.

    They really dug themselves out of that hole.

    Original source: Kommersant

     
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    Bear Witness 10:59 am on September 9, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: , Saratov, swimming   

    Legend has it he’s still paddling to this day. A true hero.

     
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    Bear Witness 3:32 pm on September 7, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: design, modern design, , subway   

    Moscow’s newest metro station comes with benches that look suspiciously like coffins.

    The wooden benches appeared at the newly opened Narodnoye Opolcheniye station, where their unusual tapered shape quickly attracted attention online.

    Russian media covering the station have rather more politely described them as “minimalist benches.” Passengers had other ideas.

    You can sit on them. You can lie down on them. Just try not to miss your final stop.

    Original source: MSK1

     
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    Bear Witness 4:17 am on September 7, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Russia without a VPN: some textures may fail to load.

     
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    Bear Witness 4:42 pm on September 6, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: commute,   

    The future is here. A Vodokanal worker casually commutes to work on an electric unicycle.

     
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    Bear Witness 1:58 pm on September 4, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: , plastic surgery, ,   

    Russian sugar babies have reportedly discovered beauty arbitrage: ask a sponsor for Moscow plastic-surgery money, then get the work done much cheaper in Dagestan and keep the difference.

    Mash has dubbed them “procedure girls.” According to the report, breast augmentation can cost around 700,000 rubles ($8,600) in Moscow versus 400,000 ($4,900) in Makhachkala. Liposuction is around 150,000 rubles ($1,850) versus 50,000 ($615), while buttock fat transfer can run 1.2 million rubles ($14,800) in Moscow versus 600,000 ($7,400) in Dagestan.

    The biggest difference is reportedly veneers: around 2.5 million rubles ($30,800) in Moscow versus 900,000 ($11,100) in Makhachkala.

    Mash claims some aspiring escorts use the savings for additional cosmetic work, hoping their upgraded appearance will eventually attract a wealthier sponsor.

    Two years in Dagestan.

    Original source: Mash

     
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    Bear Witness 5:01 am on September 2, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    A Russian sculptor spent years turning the entrance of his ordinary Soviet apartment block into something resembling a fantasy palace.

    The entrance is located at 9 Lermontova Street in Abakan, Siberia, and is the work of local sculptor Mikhail Khafizov.

    Khafizov transformed ordinary pipes into elaborate columns, added giant Atlases holding up the entrance canopy, and surrounded the building with sculptures including a golden lion and a massive bench. There’s even a roughly 10-foot-tall Gulliver in the courtyard.

    He reportedly created the decorations himself and paid for them out of his own pocket.

    Meanwhile, your landlord still won’t fix the elevator.

    Original source: Prima TV

     
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    Bear Witness 4:49 am on September 2, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: films, , movies   

    Someone recreated the ending of the Russian cult classic Brat 2 as a GTA game.

    Danila and Dasha are finally leaving America and flying back to Russia — now with the graphics and HUD of GTA: San Andreas.

    “Boy, bring us some vodka. We’re flying home.”

    Would you play Brat 2: San Andreas?

     
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    Bear Witness 4:32 am on August 28, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: devices, railroads,   

    Some Russian railway stations have machines that give passengers proof of where they started their journey — assuming they can actually get the proof out of the machine.

    The system is used at some stations to register the beginning of a trip. In this video, however, the machine prints the paper behind a protective cover and apparently fails to release it properly, leaving the passenger desperately trying to pull it out through a tiny opening.

    As one Reddit commenter put it: “Russia has two problems: fools and roads. Here, the railroads clearly collided with fools.”

    Original source: Reddit / r/CrappyDesign

     
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    Bear Witness 10:32 am on August 26, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
    Tags: online courses,   

    A woman in Russia is offering online “prison survival courses” for people who want to prepare for life behind bars.

    The private service, advertised in Perm, promises to teach clients how to behave in a Russian prison colony or pre-trial detention center, adapt to everyday prison life, and improve their chances of getting approval for parole.

    “Every case is individual,” the ad promises, adding that all conversations are strictly confidential. The instructor describes the video-call lessons as “spiritual practices.”

    Finally, an online course where you really don’t want the certificate.

    Original source: URA.RU

     
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