The Russian New Yorker?

the new moscower!

I like the chicken one. The one above that makes no sense though.

prolly some cattails/pocket monkey joke you have to be russian to get.

Keane painting goes to hell (or even more to hell).

i want to see the cartoons.

How would this magazine work? Is there enough of a upper-middle class culture in Russia to support all those university club one-liners?

the top one makes perfect sense when you knwo that the cuddly bear figure is called cheburashka, a soviet era animated bear:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-QGPDBS5a50J:http://privetparis.ru/fotos/user_11124.jpg

it got refound by the japanese and was a massive hit recently there.

this new yorker got founded a while back, but seems fucked now

heres the original article

in terms of financial viability, well none of these maazines work. there is tha famous tale of Vogue or something havign its launch party on the day the rouble crshed, so they cancelled the party, and the magazine. Russia is a struggling media market, and big (very) expensive magazines must struggle too. there are russian verison of many magazines, but i would be very intereested to see a demographic breakdown of who (if any) is buying them. Someone estimated that the artificial top layer of russian/ muscovite society, the 100000$ fur coats, the jaguars, the $100 starter dishes, the models etc, consists of roughyl 10000 people. between that and the people distraught at a 1 rouble (30 roubles to $1) rise in bread prices, there aint much. although if you toured moscow in a blacked out merc, you could be very easily fooled...

that is a beautiful russian typeface they got there btw

ambrose, did you read gibson's pattern recognition? there's a bit in there with the main (american) character in moscow creeped out by all the unmarked black police cars racing about with their blue light on the dash...later it gets explained that you can pay for the privilege of a police light and these were just biznesmeni going wherever. i wondered if that's really a prominent part of the landscape or if gibson was magnifying it a bit.

yeah i heard it was $1000 for the blue light. maybe thats a 2000 rate. if u have the light, you can ignore all traffic regs. so these cars are pretty common, and you tend to nearly get run over by em a lot.

but yeah, they exist, and are pretty common.

also, they never stop to give u a lift, so they suck. fuck the blue light peeps

btu i did get a cab in a brand new mercedes estate thing once. i was with these novii ruskii chicks, maybe that swung it

Is hitchiking common in Russia?

i wouldnt call it hitching. its the main way to get a taxi - just stick yr arm out in the road, and very soon a zhiguli or some other beat up car will stop andf ask u whee youre going. it is a bit ridiculous calling a gypsy cab business, because it is so universal and ubiquitous. everyone uses them and its extremely convenient. means you can haggle like a motherfuck
i was in town in st petersburg once with only 43 roubles in the world, after asking 10 drivers if they would go to my house (on the equivalent of cockfosters, the most northern point of piter), one guy agreed for the = of 1 pound 5 p. unfortunately he was fucking insane and drove up the wrong side of the road most of the time to beat other traffic. but at least we got home.

wouldtn advise doing this if you were a single girl tho. althoguh no one i knew had any problems. in fact, most of my russain was learnt in taxis. one guiy wanted me to meet his daughter and gave me his number?!?!!