The Russian blogosphere conveniently, if bafflingly, revolves around LJ. Each week, RUSSIA! scans the chatter and brings you the top five topics.

• Blogger durakdurakom shares poster artist Andrey Budayev's take on the Gazprom saga: behold Putin as Ceasar, Khodorkovsky bleeding on the cross, and other madness that is anachronistic in more ways than one. While many commenters think that being good at photoshoping famous political heads into painterly historical epics does not make him an artist (but a "fartist"), the popular satirist continues to amuse, offend, and publish calendars. [Политическая сатира].

• Chairman of the Board of Directors for a self-titled bank, owner of a self-titled restaurant chain, Oleg Tinkov also find time to blog about his secrets of preserving a relationship merry and fresh for decades on end. Advice includes cutting out all sentimental fussing, absolutely no weddings for at least the first ten years, and long, separate vacations, preferably where you can ski. Also, don't barrage your mate about lacking in salary lest you push him to criminal activity and "orgasms are holy." Response: nods and kudos all around. [Про любовь].

• Maxim Mischenko, leader the political movement "Young Russia," blogs about his conference at the State Duma with "Goths and Emo-kids" on "the Concept of Spiritual and Moral Education," includes dramatic-looking photos. "I've learned much," he writes. "Apparently, they too are in favor of school uniforms." One commenter quips: "If those are 'kids' then I'm an infant!" [Эмо-Дума].

• Ru_auto Lj community members rate last year's worst Moscow traffic jams. The longest stretched for 42 miles and 13 hours last May, but the true "champion" of them all turned most of the icy metropolis into 524 total miles of auto-standstill. And then it snowed. A commenter suggests an appropriate prize to the comrade responsible for the "champion" traffic jam, shakes fist. [РЕЙТИНГ ПРОБОК В МОСКВЕ-2008].

• And now for some magical introductions. From a blog titled "All Kinds of Crap for Everyone about Everything," a collection of illustrations from Soviet children's books: surrealist humanoid clockworks, bunny etchings, mushroom-ridden hedgehogs, dandy squirrels at ancient school desks, kids smoking cigars and many, many bears. Readers join to comment with a chorus of nostalgia, others finally pinpoint the origin of their reoccurring nightmares. [Советские иллюстрации детских книжек].