Archive for October, 2011

Anna Semenovich is at law for matches

Kuban restaurateur decided to use the singer’s sexy image for his selfish purposes.

To attract and amaze the guests of his establishment, he posted explicit pictures of Anna Semenovich in underwear on branded boxes of matches.

Now, each visitor will be able to get his own Anna, just ordering a set of cigarette.
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Salt and matches are in short supply in Brest

Brest starts buying up salt and matches.

Instead of usual salt, sea salt can be bought in stores, but where is usual salt – there is no answer for the citizens of Brest, Radio Racyja informs.

“Today, people buy up salt, we do not even know why they need it so much” – said Maria, the seller from one of shops on Soviet street.
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Matches as a symbol of the “cold war”

Artist Sasha Chavchavadze published her memoirs

A book of memoirs by Sasha Chavchavadze “Museum of Matches” was introduced at the publishing house Proteotypes in the New York.

The preface says that many years ago in Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir “Remembrance, speak!” the author was struck by the episode in which a friend of Nabokov’s family, tsarist general, showed a variety of games with matches to young Volodya.
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