Putin at an Affordable Price: #ShameReview from "NotMoscow"
We've compiled the most absurd news stories of recent days—from pranks in Russian schools to innovative methods of defense against drones.
🤯 In Tyumen A vending machine selling busts of Vladimir Putin was installed at the Pyaterochka store. The price was just 40 rubles each. After Telegram channels reported on the busts, Putin was replaced with jelly dogs. "Why do you come here, you ask? We've never had any Putin figurines." — a store employee told a URA.ru correspondent.
🤯 Cats from the Kursk border region performed for the first time at the Kuklachev Theater. In the summer of 2025, the animals were transported in boxes along with humanitarian aid. Cat Vizha originally from the city of Kurakhovo "DPR", Holly и Glusha - from the village Glushkovo, Kursk region.
🤯 Belarusian prankster Vladislav Bohan On behalf of United Russia, he sent out a request to Russian schools to vote at teachers' councils on "temporary restrictions" on the study of classic Russian literature. The list included Gogol's "Dead Souls," Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman," Saltykov-Shchedrin's "The History of a Town," and Chekhov's "The Death of a Government Clerk." Bokhan explained the request as a "meaning of students' informational, spiritual, and moral stability during the period of the Second Military Order." The teachers obeyed!
🤯 Head of the vocal studio "Komilfo" from Volgograd Anastasia Serebryakova Together with her students, she performed a song about the internet shutdown at the Pole Chudes (Field of Miracles). In it, the children sing that now there are "no blogs, no channels," so they play badminton and avoid the distraction of the blue light of their screens. They also advise not to worry about missed homework and missed tutoring sessions, because "it's more fun to have friends around in real life."
🤯 Governor Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov He recommended that local residents switch to a "new algorithm" for dealing with drone attacks—monitoring incoming aircraft manually. "The siren is sounding on the streets. We need to log into the alert channels, they all work on the national MAX messenger, and monitor the angle of attack." — Gladkov advises.
