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

• High-ranking member of Public Council of the Young Guard of United Russia and ever the enthusiast, Vladimir Burmatov blogs about the council's new anti-crisis measures. Competitions have begun for 5,000 Russian construction students to go to snowy Sochi as early as next month and "Build the Future!" instead of the usual guest workers. After all, what better way to practice patriotism than by paving Olympic roads while living in a work camp with your fellow hard-up countrymen? A commenter asks, "What kind of money will they pay?" Burmatov retorts, "Your country's. Rubles." [Как заработать на строительстве олимпийского Сочи]

• Fantasy writer Andrey Egorov collects photographic examples of some of Russia's most nightmarish children's playgrounds with perilous ditches, broken slides, and an extensive variety of freakish and sexually disturbing sculptures. Head over to the Russian community dedicated to this puzzling public phenomena (and the likely source of Egorov's post) for more decapitated stone-children, maniacal doctors of rotting-wood, and bunnies bleeding with bad graffiti. [Монстры детям]

• Blogger katoga and a friend video-blog the activities of a tiny new cult that has recently sprung up in the streets of Lower Moscow. These green caftan-clad bunch adorned with various computer accessories (CDs, wires, mice) go about synchronically pounding together gutted hardware and chant: "O-o-o-oh! Soon He will come! Yes! The best One! Yes! Praise Him, Holy One!" Most commenters humorlessly dub the display as idiotic and wonder who the culprits are. The most popular theory - out-of-work computer programmers gone mad. [Секта зеленых человечков]

• Two bloggers spread the news of Kemer's homeless filmmaker, who has recently submitted his 2 hour 38 minute epic to Cannes. 62-year-old Leonid Konovalov, who has eloquently justified the virtues of his voluntary vagrancy, dwells in garbage dumps and periodically plays homeless extras in student films. With a help of a camera operator friend, Konovalov wrote, directed, and starred in the art film titled "I+people=?! or An outsider's look into the human civilization." [Картина российского бомжа прогремела в Каннах], [болеем за наших!!:))))))))]

• The David Lynch Russian lj-community has been a-brewing following Lynch's recent visit and the opening of his art show in Moscow. Fans share videos and impressions, notably a parody of his book on meditation, renamed "Catching David Lynch" by the Big Fish. [Наш ответ Линчу]