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Muslim Cleric Fined For Early Call To Prayers

Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A court in Orsk, Russia, has fined the imam of the local mosque after he ignored a previous warning from an administrative commission and continued to call prayers before the legally permitted time of 7am, reports the oren.ru website. Equivalent to £10 ($17, €12, or 700 Haitian Gourdes) the 500 ruble fine comes in the [...]

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Celebrating World Philosophy Day – With A Punch Up

Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Several police units paid a visit to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ House of Scholars in Moscow this lunchtime after a brawl broke out on the opening day of events leading up to UNESCO’s World Philosophy Day on Thursday. According to the Russian media that is.

Following on from a heated debate between a previously expelled [...]

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Connoisseurs From Birth

Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged , , , , on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Such is the aim of a program at The Russian Museum reports local newspaper the St. Petersburg Times. Together with obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr. Marina Komova the gallery runs special, uniquely themed tours for pregnant women, purposefully avoiding paintings that may evoke negative emotions in mother and unborn baby, such as those depicting blood, death, [...]

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Gorbachev On Twitter

Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged , , , , on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yep, it’s official, Gorby has joined the micro-blogging cosmos, after quite miraculously mastering the English language. Perhaps a touch of personal glasnost is at play (we’ve always known you could speak it, Gorby):
http://twitter.com/mgorbachev

Still in doubt that it’s *the* Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union? Well it’s been confirmed by his staff and valebrity:
http://valebrity.com/2009/11/09/mikhail-gorbachev-mgorbachev/
The [...]

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Kyrgyzstan – Redefining ‘Feral’ Youths

Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve all encountered them at some point or another. They’re easily identified by their choice of baseball cap or hoodie (often both), pasty complexion splattered by the telltale spots of poor diet and drug use, inability to grasp the basics of the English language, and for reasons that are incomprehensible to all but their fellow [...]

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