Russia classfies beer as alcoholic!

Wait, What????

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic.

Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff.

The move, signed into law on Wednesday, will allow ministers to control the sale of beer in the same way that spirits are controlled.

Russian alcohol consumption is already twice the critical level set by the World Health Organization.

Although vodka has long been the traditional tipple in Russia, beer has soared in popularity, being marketed as a healthier alternative to spirits.

Over the past decade, beer sales in Russia have risen more than 40% while vodka sales have fallen by nearly 30%.

Correspondents say it is common to see people swigging beer in the street and in parks as if they are drinking soft drinks.

It is not restricted to certain stores and is sold around the clock.

"The law brings some order into the sale of beer," Vadim Drobiz, director of the Centre for Federal and Regional Alcohol Market Studies, told US broadcaster Bloomberg.

Last year the Russian beer industry was hit by a 200% tax hike on its products as ministers sought to bring consumption under control.

The new measures - which come into effect in 2013 - will stop alcohol being sold in unlicensed kiosks, ban its sale from stores between certain hours and restrict its advertising.

In 2009 President Medvedev ordered the government to prepare draft laws on a package of measures to counter growing alcohol abuse.

And remember..."In Russia, you don't drink beer. Beer drinks YOU!"

Cannibals arrested after trying to sell bits of human flesh to a kebab shop!

Russia! Our new home for weird stuff!

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.

Three homeless men with previous criminal records have been arrested on suspicion of setting upon a foe with knives and a hammer before chopping up his corpse to eat, local investigators said in a statement on their www.susk.perm.ru Web site.

"After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies," the Prosecutor-General's main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a statement issued Friday.

It was not immediately clear from the statement if any of the corpse had been sold to customers.

Yum yum!

Russian Police finds Dog girl in Siberia!

Yup! The weirdness doesn't stop! 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have taken into care a 5-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said on Wednesday.

The girl, who lived in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita, could not speak Russian and acted like an dog when police took her into care.

"For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

"The unwashed girl was dressed in filthy clothes, had the clear attributes of an animal and jumped at people," it said.

The flat had no heat, water or sewage system.

A police spokeswoman said the girl, known as Natasha, is being monitored by psychologists in an orphanage. Her mother was being questioned but her father has not been found yet.

She appears to be about 2-years-old, though her real age is five, refuses to eat with a spoon and has taken on many of the gestures of the animals with which she lived, police said.

"When carers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks," the police said.

Feral children, the stuff of folklore all over the world, usually exhibit the behavior of the animals with whom they have had closest contact, a condition known as the Mowgli Syndrome after the fictional child from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" who was raised by wolves in the jungle.

Such children have usually built strong ties with the animals with whom they lived and find the transition to normal human contact extremely traumatic.

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Farah Master)

Is it me or the Russians have a high percentage of these feral children in the last 15 years, after the Soviet Union collapsed? It looks that after the communists left, the weirdness magnet was turned way up!

There's lice all over the building...KARATE CHOP!!!!

Alcohol and Russians don't mix. Consider this news story from Moscow...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian karate expert has been charged with beating to death a 61-year-old woman and her son, whom he accused of infecting his wife with lice, an investigator said Friday.

The drunk 26-year-old burst into a neighboring room in his hostel Tuesday and used karate moves to kill the pair, state investigator Eduard Abdullin said by telephone from Kazan, a city 700 km (430 miles) east of Moscow.

"He literally beat them to death with his hands and feet," Abdullin said. "The family were poor and drank a lot. He blamed them for infecting his wife and the entire corridor with lice."

The 58-year-old husband of the dead woman was also badly beaten, but survived.

The suspect, who studied karate for seven years, faces life in prison if convicted, Abdullin added.

Man...stupidity is running rampant!

Spanish Prime Minister uses the F word in a press conference!

During a press conference in which the tourism between Spain and Russia was being explained, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain's Prime Minister, commited a Freudian slip and really let loose what was on his mind at that moment.




For those who are not versed in the Spanish vernacular, "Follar" is the slang equivalent to "F#ck" in English.

To be fair, a lot of Spaniards go to Russia to "Follar". I mean what else there is see...The Kremlin? Laika the dog?

Nyet Tovarish! No South Park for YOU!!!!

It looks that the Iron Curtain is back in Russia as they try ban American TV show "South Park" as "extremist". Here's an excerpt...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series "extremist" after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday.

South Park, a cartoon aimed at adults and featuring a group of nine-year olds in a Colorado ski town, has courted controversy from its 1997 debut, parodying celebrities, politicians, religion, gay marriage and Saddam Hussein.

Read more here.

It's not so good to see the humorless Neo-Soviet Union Back!

On the brink of nuclear war?

Wait a minute! First former Warsaw Pact nations including Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). A bad move since there's no use for NATO anymore. Then Georgia, who very pro-west former Soviet republic, wants to join NATO and attacks South Ossetia when they said that they wanted to join the Russian Federation. When the Russians counterattack in a very cold-war tactic, an overkill really, too blunt for my taste, the US decides to play tough guy, condemns the attack and convinces Poland to join them in putting a missile defense system against Russia.
Just an hour ago Russia declared that if Poland decides to put missiles against Russia, Russia reserves the right to attack Poland with nuclear weapons if provoked!
WHAT!!!!
When did we went back to 1962?
Another freaking missile crisis?
Freaking Jesus the Jew!!! WTF!!!!
The ironic thing is the nation that is playing peace maker between the boys is none other than Germany!!
Yes, Germany! The nation that gave us two of the most destructive wars last century, (apart from great cars, magnificent sound systems and hot porn). They have learned from their mistakes, and don't want Russia and the US repeating them!
What ticks me off is that probably Monkey Boy Bush and Evil Emperor Cheney are laughing at this!