Last month, we celebrated the news that Russia is the world’s leading producer of spam e-mail. This week, The Onion riffs on that same idea with a video report about the fictional spam-producing nation of Koy4goff, capital Affordable Paradise.
Ninety percent of all spam apparently originates in Koy4goff, nestled just northwest of Kazakhstan, where the main exports include free iPods, penis enlargers and “Scarlett Johannsson upskirt photos.” The best part is hearing the actors do deadpan readings of spam text in surprisingly decent Russian accents. In fact, some of these guys might be the real thing. For once.
Most of those who drove in Russia know that the quality of roads in this country is so terrible that it’s not even funny. But you, the reader, should review the following images — and next time you hear your cab driver speaking Russian — just sit back and relax: the driver knows what he is doing.
In the USSR, there was one floral scent which could be called the scent of success: the scent of Krasnaya Moskva - "Red Moscow," the perfume favored by the Kremlin wives and the country's lucrative Communist party elite. Let's take a whiff of its flowery past.