While surfing the web I founded a very interesting design project “A brand new site about Russia” made by Elena Marus as a graduation from British High Design School, Moscow.

This site is supposed to be a presentation of Russia for foreign people, where the author collected all the stereotypes that foreigners have about our country. And I enjoyed every text that Elena wrote with a great sence of humor. Check out some of examples:

About the country  – “everybody knows that there are two cities in Russia – Moscow and St. Petersburg. The rest of the country is called Siberia – pretty simple geography”. 

About national emblem – “Russian eagle is the only Siamise eagle in the world!”

About Vodka and cut glasses – “good company in Russia always means 3 people, 3 cut glasses and 1 bottle of vodka. No other way of drinking vodka is allowable”.

 “Russian brides – one of the leading Russian export items”.

“Chelsea is the most famous Russian football club in the world.”

Preved Medved – “one more kind of famous Russian bears which lives on the internet.”

If you haven’t seen this project before, I strongly recommend you to check it out and by the way - grab your attention on “phrases to survive”.