Trendy Russian Design agency, Playoff Creative Services, has developed the corporate identity for the World Financial Crisis. Hat tip to poster Thorny at Redtape.ru. Click for bigger images.

(It was of course a fun promotion for the agency created for April 1)

Despite the fabled sexual exploits of Russian Women, it isn’t resulting in a whole heap of babies. Yes, likely there will be millions fewer Russians in 2050 than now.

SuperHeroes were the mainstay of comic strips - and for so long that generations of Bat Girls and Sons Of Robin had to be invented.
With demand exceeding supply, it was only a matter of time before Russians were drafted into the genre.
Red Star - real name Leonid - was the creation of Teen Titans, [...]

International Women’s Day. Link.

However, it is the only section of their website - and it took a lot of finding - where O2 suggests that it costs £1.50 a minute to call Russia.

… In fact, you can never save ‘ up to 80% ‘ with any of O2’s ‘ money saving services ‘ since you have to pay a bundle in premium to buy them.

Since my previous post on the expat exodus from Russia, I received some mail and insight into the phenomenon. I don’t use the word phenomenon lightly.
To add hard numbers, HVS, a global recruitment and consulting firm, recently completed its 2008 survey of managerial staff in Russia. The comparison with 2007 is dramatic.
In the hotel and [...]

Just a couple of weeks after The Exile crew was reportedly run out of town, BP has withdrawn the last of its foreign staff.

… Leaving BP’s particular problems aside for a moment, there have been two significant developments in the last two years.

This week, I was pleased to discover redtape.ru. It’s a lively discussion forum that migrated from the old Moscow-based expat.ru.
I never caught up with all the reasons why, but suffice it to say that the most entertaining and original posters from the old expat.ru are now on redtape, which is . . . fun.
What do [...]

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Is your blog site blocked in China? A trip to this site will give you your no no rating in nanoseconds.

The Great Firewall Of China tells you something about media censorship. Because nobody’s protesting about China at all, where censorship is as total as can be. But America has a boodles of billions trade [...]