The Austrian city of Vienna is pronounced and spelled as “vein” in Russian. Therefore, when saying the word “vein” in Russian, there really is no difference between the blood vessel and the capital of Austria, unless of course you use it in the appropriate context. As a result, we have this ad by Austrian Airlines, where the message on the ad could literally be translated as “Twice a day, in the vein”…
- Pickup trucks never really had a chance in Russia…
When planing on traveling to Russia, you really can’t afford underestimating the extreme climate conditions that this country has…
For those of you just waking up, here is a new RussianFun.net layout that we are planning to keep from now on. It seems less crowded, as well as a lot cleaner than the old one. The fact that it lets you have 3 different color combinations doesn’t hurt either. The biggest selling point however, was the fact that all of the pictures will from now on fit without resizing (something that was a huge problem on the old layout), so now the quality of pictures will no longer be compromised.
We hope you like it,
Feel free to comment…
You’d think that Russia only had a road crisis, but now it looks like that outside toilets also can be added to the list…
We’ve already showed you a bad Mitsubishi test drive, here is another one. It’s not exactly clear what the potential customers were trying to test in these test drives, but if these were the emergency break tests then the ones on Mitsubishi seem a bit weak, while the BMW’s are perhaps too good…
Everyone who grew up in Russia knows numerous tales about the bravery and might of Russian folklore characters, “bogatyrs”. Here are three of them in the famous painting “Three Bogatyrs” by Victor Vasnetsov, and below there is a picture that lets you see the modern “bogatyrs” who keep Russia safe from dragons…
Everyone in Russia, as well as Russians living abroad wanted Russia to beat Spain and face Germany at the Euro-2008 final. Unfortunately Spain was a much better team, well nevertheless here are couple of pictures that show the level of optimism preceding the yesterdays game…
- Everything seems very accurate, except that flags should change places…
One guy living in Germany, had decided to say goodbye to his Russian citizenship. As a result we have a situation where an employee of Russian Embassy in Germany had posted online a copy of a notice, that simply claims that the person on the note is no longer a Russian citizen. However this is just a meaningless background, click below to find out the dude’s last name… (Don’t bother if you don’t speak Russian, sorry it’s not translatable)
A news anchor in Russia was clearly thinking about something else while reading a story about the about the Wimbledon. When taking about the Grand Slam Title, which in Russian is called “Bolshoi Shlem”, (big helmet) she accidentally referred to it as a “Bolshoi Chlen”, which translates as a “big penis” in Russian…
- Russia was crushed by Spain (0:3) at Euro-2008 today. This means that tonight, this pretty fan is home crying. In the related news, Russia will cut off Spain’s oil and natural gas supply until 2020…
This gallery is absurd. Needs Must, is the best way all of these pictures could be categorized. Desperation and odd logic, guide the decision making behind most of these shots…
You probably know already that we are very biased towards Russian Cops on this site, mainly because most of them have no honor and take bribes constantly, nevertheless we are probably even more biased towards the insanely expensive cars some of them get to drive. Here is a gallery that shows you what they used to drive back in USSR days, make sure to click on the link down in the gallery to see what some of them drive these days…
