Nov 01

Garbage Can Explosion

This Russian pyro-wannabe needs an Oscar for his amazing post-explosion performance. He doesn’t just fall after the garbage can blows up, he flies backwards and drops like a dead man. Very convincing. Unfortunately, the raining fire took him out of character and he was forced to run for cover.

What can we say? Russian’s love idiotic pyrotechnics and stupid explosions.

3/5 Balalaika’s for the scorched genius.

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Nov 01

Russian Chipmunk Casting

As if the chipmunk voice wasn’t annoying enough, they decided to add a Russian accent. This is by far the most annoying thing to come out of Russia since Tatu. Possibly worse.

But if you’re one of those sick people that enjoys watching train-wrecks, you’ll love this Alvin and the Chipmunks casting video.

1/5 Balalaika’s
to these amazing vocalists and voice actors.

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Oct 31

Baby Boxer

The Soviet Union — the country that gave us boxing legends like the Klitschko brothers and Ivan Drago, has once again shown that pugilism has a bright future in the motherland. This little kid, who can’t be older than three or four, has a stronger punch than most grown men I know, myself included.

I introduce to you, mini-Drago, the undisputed champion of the sandbox.

Amazing kid, but points off for the unnecessarily long video (come on, we need bite-sized with our attention spans). 4/5 Balalaika’s.

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Oct 31

Balalaika — New Week, New Rating

This weeks rating system has a deeply cultural inspiration, the balalaika. No, it’s not a drunk’s failed attempt at making a guitar, it is an old Russian musical instrument of debatable and mostly unknown origins. Okay, so maybe it is a drunken attempt at a guitar.

But as we learned last week, the balalaika can have a pretty badass side to it.

So enjoy a new week of rating the web’s best Russian videos.

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