I’ll bet that this is also the technique Russia uses to launch their nuclear missiles.
It seems that the Olympic Torch, in the hands of 17-times World Champion diver Shavarsh Karapetyan, decided to extinguish itself, most likely because it doesn’t really want to be there. The torch was then lit by a staff member with a fancy looking cigarette lighter.
Obananas – The Obama Banana Picture
First it was the monkey with a hand grenade remark now this! What’s with these Russians? Maybe all these references make sense. After all Putin has succeeded in making a monkey out of Obama.
A pro-Kremlin lawmaker and former Olympic gold medalist faced a racism row Saturday after she posted a photo-collage of President Barack Obama juxtaposed with a banana on Twitter.
Irina Rodnina posted on Twitter a photomontage that purports to show Obama and his wife gazing at a hand in the foreground holding up a banana.
The image evoked the brandishing of bananas at black players by some football fans, a crude racist slur still seen at some matches in Russia.
Now a lawmaker in the Duma lower house of parliament for the ruling party, Rodnina, 64, won three Olympic gold medals in figure skating in the 1970s and 1980s.
The image she posted on Twitter went viral after Russia’s charismatic opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, reposted it on Friday evening.
Navalny, who himself has raised eyebrows by speaking at nationalist rallies, wrote that the lawmaker was “making a joke.”
Journalist Tikhon Zyadko responded on Twitter that: “Duma deputy Irina Rodnina doesn’t hide she is a racist”.
“Maybe this is everyday racism. Maybe it’s that she was badly brought up and has a warped sense of humour,” wrote the deputy editor of Moskovsky Komsomolets daily, Aider Muzhdabayev in a blog.
“The main thing is that Rodnina did this, and she doesn’t regret it a bit.”
After the post sparked a storm of disgust on Saturday, Rodnina deleted the message, but insisted she believed she had done nothing wrong.
“Freedom of speech is freedom of speech! Deal with your hangups yourself,” she wrote defiantly on Twitter, saying the post had boosted her rating.
Peeling an orange almost inevitably ends up with juice flying everywhere and making a mess, but CrazyRussianHacker on YouTube seems to have cracked the code.
The theme tune to the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon is a big hit in Russian military marching circles, as this video reveals.
Did you know, that one of the most popular marching songs in Russian army is “Sponge Bob Square Pants” theme.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Sponge Bob Square Pants!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he.
Sponge Bob Square Pants!
If nautical nonsense be somethin’ ya wish.
Sponge Bob Square Pants!
Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish.
Sponge Bob Square Pants!