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

• Russian Lj community i_future dedicated to dreams of times to come has just announced a contest - members are asked to submit a description of their most unusual job or dream job accompanied by a real photograph or collage fakery, accordingly, for a shot at a super portable computer and some Art.Lebedev stuff. Comments include entries from a zoologist sitting rubber-boot-deep in the middle of Pra River while waiting to photograph Spring bird migrations, a mobile carpenter in a Ukrainian resort town of Koktebelseen, seen here building a shelf from nearby benches, and the installer of the giant letters for the roof of the GUM store seen here getting bromantic with the "U." [Конкурс: самое необычное место работы]

• Blogger fima_pruchopadt digs up children's drawings of Medvedev. Actual tittles include "Steps of the Great Mission," "President in the Red Square Reading the Constitution to Children" and "Medvedev Cares for Bunnies." Comments are mostly bouts of general discontent, psychoanalysis and "not looking forward to these kids growing up." These kids, however, can surely look forward to successful future careers in Kremlin PR. [Психологические нюансы мира сильных глазами детей]

• Despite newly arrived hot weather, hidebound blogger vreditel suggests a strict dress code for Moscow outlawing wife-beaters, dirty heels, and bare armpits since "the effects of AXE deodorant are largely exaggerated." His advice: Red Square is not a beach, so don't forget you're representing Moscow and tighten up that tie knot!... really. The response: "Outlaw topless men!" The response to the response: "Outlaw non-topless women!" Yuk yuk. [и о погоде]

• Bloggers vote on their favorite books from the 2009 Russian national bestsellers list. Poll includes the titles "Gods of the Steppe," "Kamlaev's Anamoly," "Oil Venus" and "The Secret Life of St Petersburg Monuments." The ultimate poll winner to receive LiveJournal's Readers' Appreciation Prize is the one that's most about what it sounds like it's about. Wouldn't you like to know. Hint: the one about the monuments. [Кому отдать приз читательских симпатий?]

• Blogger tuwka returned from Rome horrified with yet another European vacation ruined by her fellow countrymen. The jet-setter says that Paris, Berlin and Vienna are so densely populated with Russian tourists and expatriates that she is reaching out to the Lj community to tell her which country to go to next time where they don't sell sunflower seeds in the street, push and yell "Watch where the hell you're going!" in Russian. Suggestions include Kosovo, Albania, and changing her attitude. [Европейские страны с минимальным количеством российских туристов.]