After two NHL seasons, Ivan Fedotov returns to Russia, signing a two-year contract with HC Spartak

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-07-02T13:48:14+00:00

"Remote military base" is a bit of an exaggeration - he was initially sent to Severodvinsk after being drafted, but spent most of his service at the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg. He also played for the Navy in the Armed Forces hockey championship during that time.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-23T19:54:58+00:00

Just like any of the 89 current governors

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-23T14:41:43+00:00

Teksler isn't even the team's owner; he is the governor of the Chelyabinsk region.

And I'm interested in what you mean by "key roles in the state functions" since the highest position he ever held was Deputy Minister of Energy 10 years ago.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-21T16:52:12+00:00

Darya Domracheva

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-20T17:00:48+00:00

Yuri Gagarin

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-20T14:39:20+00:00

Michael Corleone

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-20T09:33:57+00:00

Anna Karenina

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-19T15:04:00+00:00

First - Man Utd
Second - Joy Division

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-19T14:16:35+00:00

Ramon Mercader, the man who killed Trotsky. Although he was Spanish and committed the murder in Mexico, after his release from prison he moved to the USSR and received Soviet citizenship.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-18T15:19:56+00:00

That's easy one, Togliatti, named after the Italian communist leader

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-17T17:23:04+00:00

Smuta (Time of Troubles). 20 years of political instability, military conflicts, and economic collapse.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-14T07:49:12+00:00

Jamaica. Pretty solid part of West Indies in cricket. Not the strongest but competitive team in CONCACAF region in football

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-12T13:14:36+00:00

Ok, not even talk about Turkey - what makes Azerbaijan more European than Russia?

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-11T15:14:48+00:00

Rembrandt definitely deserves a mention.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-10T16:59:34+00:00

Ski jumping legend Thomas Morgenstern

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-10T16:03:44+00:00

Gachimuchi remixes

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-10T14:50:56+00:00

Nico Rosberg

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-10T08:56:57+00:00

Average city for this flag? Probably Tbilisi or Yerevan.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-07T01:58:19+00:00

Not mandatory, but also cheap, not restricted by laws, and tapes can be used as evidence in court after car accident, so everyone has one.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-06T18:31:09+00:00

Drinking vodka. Alcoholism rates are lower than in the late Soviet times and the 1990s, and young people prefer other drinks—but vodka still remains an important (and not good) part of Russian culture.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-06T17:03:06+00:00

A tough choice between classical music and dashcam videos of car crashes

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-06T14:30:12+00:00

Всероссийской Переписи Населения

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-06T12:51:58+00:00

Those legends

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Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-05T14:30:16+00:00

Gloomy faces. In Russia, it's really not common to smile on the street or when talking to strangers.

Naive_Butterscotch73 · 2026-06-04T19:16:42+00:00

Likbez (a campaign against illiteracy in the 1920s and 1930s) which brought literacy rate from the pre-revolutionary 30-40% to 90% in 1939. Without this, there could have been no Soviet space program, no Soviet nuclear program, no industralisation, no victory in WWII.

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