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K-141 – a tribute to the sailors lost in the Kursk submarine tragedy
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This site gets top billing out of respect to the sailors lost on the Kursk and to the families and friends that survived them
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Koba's Spravochnoe Byuro
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The best page of Russian current events links in existence, and the page that motivated me to create this one
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RUSSIA.com
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Loads of info on Russia, one of the few all-English sites on my page
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RUS.org
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Similar to Russia.com, but you'll need to know Russian (same goes for most links on this page)
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RAZVOD.com
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For English speakers: play games, read jokes, check out live Russian radio or TV, meet the girl or guy of your dreams - it's all here
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SOKR.ru
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A killer linguistic resource, this is the place to decipher Russian abbreviations and acronyms - or even add your own
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XPEH.ru
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Another gem for linguists: an interactive dictionary of Russian euphemisms – find a suitable replacement for that three-letter word here
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BOOM.ru
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Russian homepages – make your own, templates offered
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NAROD.ru
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Boom.ru’s top competitor, both similar to Tripod and very popular
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RUBL.ru
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Russian language music source – acronym stands for Russian Ultimate Band List
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MIRUMIR.ru
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Top-notch Russian postcard server
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OTKRITKI.ru
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If Mirumir.ru doesn’t suit your postcard needs, find a musical card here
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CASINO2000
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Self-explanatory, play at your own risk
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Body2000.ru
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Russian site for bodybuilders
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F-1.ru
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For Formula One fans
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GorodMoskva.ru
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This Moscow entertainment guide shows you things to do in the city, 24/7.
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24Hours.ru
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Another 24/7 guide to Moscow that will help you find the right restaurant, club, bar, etc., no matter what day or time you’re looking
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SPB.ru
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A tourist guide and information source for St. Petersburg which will show you that Moscow isn’t the only Russian city worth visiting
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HERMITAGE.ru
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Take a virtual tour of St. Petersburg’s top tourist attraction and find out when it’s open
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SEX.ru
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Not a porn site, but an information source on every aspect of sex: medical, psychological, religious, legal, etc.
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DoctorSex.ru
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If you can’t find what you need at Sex.ru, drop a line to Doctor Sex here
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SEXPLORER.ru
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Good things come in threes – if the above two sites don’t fit the bill, discuss your problem here
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SONNIK.ru
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A Russian site dedicated to dream analysis, where you can confirm that yes, your dream is about sex after all
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Super-Cosmos.ru
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The “Official Site of the Cosmos” has everything you need to know about outer space
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PLAY.ru
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Answer 40 questions and find out your IQ
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SBN.ru
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A sports-related banner exchange site
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POLIT.ru
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A political site registered by Russia’s Ministry of the Press…you decide how objective it is
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OBOZRENIE.ru
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Once billed as the answer to POLIT.ru, this site recently came out on top of a countrywide survey which asked Internet users to name their top choice for the startup page on their browsers
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Luna.Msk.ru
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Buy a small section of the moon as a gift for your ñîëíûøêî, but hurry…out of the 3,111,202 sections available on the visible side, barely three million remain
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Free Internet 2000
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A free Internet provider for those living in Russia or on their way there
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NewsPepper.ru
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A news site inclined towards humor, includes political comics and digests
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PalaceKama.ru
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A different kind of chat site which includes games and unique ways to express your mood while chatting
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CHATTING.ru
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A standard chat site popular enough for the owners to register typos such as chattting.ru and chating.ru
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KROVATKA.ru
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Supposedly the first Russian chat site to gain countrywide popularity
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STARCHAT.ru
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A chance to ask questions to your favorite Russian celebrities
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SEXYCHAT.ru
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If your chatting goals involve finding a significant other, skip the other chat sites and head straight here
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NEZNAKOMKA.ru
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If you prefer to find your soulmate without the chat, this site is as good as any of them
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ZNAKOMSTVO.ru
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Same as above – this is supposedly Russia’s first site dedicated to finding love over the Internet
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RAX.ru
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An Internet portal similar to Yahoo – so similar, in fact, that the index page is a blatant ripoff of same, you’ll have to see it to believe it…lack of originality notwithstanding, however, it’s still a useful resource
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RAMBLER.ru
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Another Internet portal – my favorite of all – which includes free e-mail and the best Russian-English, English-Russian dictionary I’ve seen so far…highly recommended
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YANDEX.ru
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A search engine affiliated with the aforementioned Narod.ru, offering free e-mail with 10 MB of storage
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OMEN.ru
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An entertainment site with games, contests, pictures, etc.
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TRAX.ru
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Similar to Omen.ru, but more inclined towards adult - not an X-rated site, but well deserving of an ‘R’ rating
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LOVERS.ru
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Featuring games, links and photos, this is an ‘R’ version of Neznakomka.ru
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YXO.ru
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Rumors and gossip on almost every imaginable subject
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AllGoal.org
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Over 1500 videoclips of European football highlights
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SPORTS.ru
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A must-see for sports fans, featuring hockey, basketball, tennis, Formula One, boxing, European football and more
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SPARTAK.ru
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Despite the fact that I root for a different team, I’m responding to 18 e-mail requests from Spartak fans who asked me to add this link
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Anna Kournikova
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Keeping with my new tradition of responding to requests (66 this time, all but three from Americans), here’s a Russian site dedicated to Anna Kournikova, created by a Narod.ru user
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ZONE.ru
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Russia’s gaming zone, supposedly featuring every game you could possibly play on the Internet
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GAMES.ru
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A site that offers not only games, but solutions as well
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iMusic.ru
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A comprehensive site dedicated to Russian and western music – links, news, photos and MP3s
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BABY.ru
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For new parents, soon-to-be parents or those who are seriously thinking of adding a two-legged tax deduction to the family
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VirtualKids.ru
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When those kids grow up, this site will keep them amused while you’re checking out Lovers.ru in another room
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COMPROMAT.ru
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Believe it or not, the purpose of this site is to help you dig up dirt on anyone
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NOVAYA POCHTA
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A provider of free e-mail and web hosting, offering four different domains names (you get three out of the four choices!): newmail.ru, nm.ru, nightmail.ru and hotmail.ru (rumors abound regarding a legal battle with Microsoft over the latter)…also serves as the home base of a popular Internet café in the center of Moscow
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Freeware.ru
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Russian versions of freeware, shareware and demos for Windows
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CRACK.ru
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Having nothing to do with drugs, this site offers ways around having to set back your clock to be able to use shareware longer (not that I’m encouraging you to use such methods)…also provides means to search for term papers and MP3s.
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BEZPLATNO.com
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Similar to Freeware.ru, this site specializes in free computer programs and resources
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FREESTUFF.ru
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A site dedicated to free merchandise ranging from T-shirts and jeans to Internet access and more
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MP3.ORG.ru
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An MP3 site offering the Top 20 MTV (western) and Top 100 Russian hits in addition to an extensive archive
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MP3VQF.ru
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A huge collection of MP3 files (including many rare ones), songs in VQF format, as well as players and codes for those who can’t open files already downloaded.
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ITOGI.ru
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A news magazine affiliated with Newsweek…rumor has the magazine and this site going under soon, so read it while you can
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VESTI.ru
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A daily source for Internet-related news, targeted to all users from beginners to hackers
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ALFAMOBILE.ru
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A driving game billed as a continuation of the movie “Speed.”
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NETCROSS.ru
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A one-stop portal offering games, chat, personals, a collection of toasts, horoscopes and so on
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XXL.ru
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For those living in Russia (or just there on business) who prefer to shop by computer: a store similar to WalMart that delivers to your home and offers frequent-buyer discounts
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IGNIO.ru
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A horoscope site offering humorous horoscopes, Chinese horoscopes, a daily horoscope via e-mail and so on
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PAPERGATE.ru
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Allows you to page people via pager and cell phone – frequent users can take advantage of the address book offered
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SoftArea.ru
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Software, software, and more software…read about it, discuss it in the Soft Area forum, register your own programs, get answers to FAQs and subscribe to software news via e-mail
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NARISOVAL.ru
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See Roma Voronezhskiy’s outstanding drawings and take his advice to improve your own drawing skills
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AVIABILET.ru
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for those in Russia: an online source for airfares and tickets, hotel searches and so on
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OCEAN.ru
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For those interested in oceanography
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VECTRA63.ru
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A source of information regarding computers, as well as consumer reviews for potential buyers
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LOGOTYPES.ru
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Your one-stop source for downloading copies of corporate logos
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RECLAMA.ru
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See copies of the latest ads that are currently in metro stations and on the streets of Russia
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FILM.ru
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A source for the latest news regarding Russian and western films, reviews of the films as well as their soundtracks, articles about film stars and so on
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MirKino.ru
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Similar to Film.ru, but includes forums and opinion polls
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55.ru
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A Russian online trading site
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RELAX.ru
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The theme behind this site is relaxation and a break from everyday stress via jokes, comics and time spent in the site’s “club-like” atmosphere. Also includes a section just for women featuring recipes and a “what’s hot and what’s not” section.
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ESTART.ru
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A portal site, suspiciously similar to Lycos’s old format, which openly begs to be your browser’s startup page. Not a bad candidate for the honor, but no better than Aport, AtRus, Rambler (which would be my choice), Yandex, or even blatant Yahoo-ripoff Rax.
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MOLOTOK.ru
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Russia's E-Bay
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AtRus
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A Russian search engine similar to Yahoo, Lycos or Excite, free e-mail offered
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APORT.ru
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Same as above (same people, in fact)
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USSR.to
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Another search engine, free homepages offered – caters to all former Soviet republics and offers more homepage tools than any other Russian homepage provider I know of
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UP.ru
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A search engine and homepage provider affiliated with USSR.to
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SUPERTOP.ru
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Having nothing to do with bikinis, this site shows you which sites are most popular right now – 17,465 sites made the list
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IDIOT.ru
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Jokes, games and more: not vulgar or porn-related, but not always for kids, either
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ZERKALO.com
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Russia's "Virtual Communication World" - in other words, message boards, chats and "lookin' for love" classifieds
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GUESTBOOK.ru
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If I ever decide to put a guestbook on this page, this will be my source
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POSTCARD.ru
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Let your çàé÷èê know how much you care
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MAFIA.RU
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The jokes alone make this site worth visiting, and their Top 100 list provides links to 30,189 sites in 51 categories
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ANEKDOT.ru
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A humor page I visit every day - the stories are even funnier than the jokes...be warned that there is no anti-vulgarity review system in place
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HUMOUR.ru
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Another humor page worth visiting frequently - often loads slowly (sometimes not at all), but completely worth the wait
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FOMENKO.ru
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Russia's most popular humor site – astoundingly extensive, games available too
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BIKER.ru
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Emphasis on Harley Davidsons
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MOTO.ru
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An extensive site for those who don’t find their interest covered on Biker.ru
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CD Land.ru
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Self-explanatory
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2,078 Russian links
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Divided into 55 categories
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LIST.ru
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Countless links divided into 68 categories
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Russian Toronto
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Self-explanatory
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Russian Seattle
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Self-explanatory
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NewYork.ru
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Self-explanatory
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Russian beer labels
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Nice site and an extremely impressive collection
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PIVO.org
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Dedicated to beer
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NUBO.ru
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This astoundingly thorough site includes a huge volume of beer-related news, jokes, slogans, songs (on RealAudio), statistics, polls, trivia (the authors even go to the trouble of scolding the 20 countries that don't produce beer), world records, etc, as well as images of countless beer labels, bottlecaps, cans and artwork - and for good measure, includes well over a hundred beer-related links. Just reading the site map alone requires a great deal of time. If you speak Russian and like beer, sites just don't get better than this one.
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SPORU.net
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Out of all the humor sites on the RuNet, this is my favorite
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Alternative Dictionaries
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Slang in Russian and 118 other languages
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Little Russia in the U.S,
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Formerly “Little Russia in San Antonio,” this site obviously expanded quite a bit
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Zmail.ru
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Good provider of free e-mail, "baltika4" already taken :-)
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Metro-2
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See the Moscow metro that "doesn't exist"
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Nikolai Gogol
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Great links, russify your computer
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Caspian Pipeline project
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In English and Russian
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Moscow TV-6
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Download TV-6 and watch it live
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Russian Freeware
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Free software for Windows in every category
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Online Computer Dictionary
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English-Russian, Russian-English
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Ne Bej Kopytom
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Moscow-based music and bar links
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Bronnitskiy Jewelers
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A jewelry plant just south of Moscow…do a friend of mine a huge favor and sign the guestbook
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Russian Internet stroll
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Hundreds of links, don't miss this one
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UKA.ru
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Entertainment and information links, games, jokes, etc.
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LYRICS.ru
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Lyrics to thousands of songs, Russian and western, searchable alphabetically by group or title
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Russian and NIS music
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In English; hundreds of links
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Russian Club Songs Page
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Lyrics to Russian rock classics
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MOCKOBCKOE METPO
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Moscow's subway
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Miscellaneous Links
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Self-explanatory
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REFERAT.ru
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Russian college essays up for grabs, students
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Russian UFO research
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Self-explanatory
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Vechernyy Internet
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A Russian Internet review
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Russian Tongue Twisters
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Be REALLY careful how you pronounce the sixth one
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Sasha's Russian Links from Hell
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An impressive list, worth the time to visit
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Russia on the Internet
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A collection of links, topics include research, travel, media, government, business, education, sports, music, personal pages and more.
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Russian "cool stuff"
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”Cool stuff,” which is listed in the site’s actual URL, means “znakomstvo (personals)” in this case
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LISTOVKA.ru
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A vitrual grab bag of links and resources, don't pass it by (dead as of last update, but rumored to be returning - if you've ever seen it, you know why I think it's worth leaving the link here)
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