Eugene's blog

Have you ever heard Mikhail Zadornov's sketches?

If you are from Russia, I'm sure you've heard!

The main theme of his sketches was a stupidity of Americans. In the next video they are approving that Zadornov was right:

When I was a child I lived in a small Ural town and used to go to fishing. Sometimes it was summer fishing, but more interesting was ice fishing. For some people from the West, especially living in warm countries, it could be really weird that someone can spend the whole day at a pond trying to catch fish from under the ice when the temperature is -25C and it is extremely windy.

Our Prime-minister Vladimir Putin (and possible our future President) officially doesn’t have a lot of property. He cannot be compared with such a rich world leaders like Silvio Berlusconi who is an owner of a big media corporation. By the way Vladimir Putin has real estate.

I am not sure how many flats and houses does he have, but I know that he has a one flat in S.Peterburg. I know this because of a recent item of news. It was said that the Putin’s flat in this city had been damaged by water from melted snow and ice…

Very interesting thing for me is that Eduard Khil who is 75 years old has become enormously famous all over the world. Time to time I hear some of his songs (on TV or on radio), but I've never heard his Trololo song before. I'm not sure that it was popular in 70th in the Soviet Union. For example almost all my elder friends kow Eduard Khil and they know a lot of his song by heart, but they do nothing know about the Trololo song.

A steam locomotive has been restored by RZD (Russian railways) and now it is used for excursions. I think it was made especially for the war veterans of WWII. It is some kind of a gift for the Victory Day (the 9th of May). Here are a record of its arrival or departure at the Kazan railway station:

P.S. I've heard that the same action (a restoration of a steam locomotive) would take place in the other division of the RZD - Sverdlovskaya railway with the HQ in Yekaterinburg. If it is so, I will try to take a look at this machine or even will go for a ride.