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Privet! I invite you to take a look at this stunning result of the graduate work from British Higher School of Art and Design student Elena Marus from Moscow. This web project portrays and explains with fresh style and humour Russia’s flagship symbols and emblems ranging from samovar and cheburashka to astronauts. It also includes a short survival dictionary, explaining for example how to attract as well as detract attention or lower the price on Russian souvenirs, which are as comic as they are useful.

Although the site is directed at the foreign visitor of modern day Russia, some of humour of Elena’s comments might get lost to the completely Russia-uninitiated English reader: many of the puns depend on some knowledge of the so-called Russian mentality and current issues. But this is why both Russians and non-Russian speakers will enjoy this refreshing piece of inter-cultural dialogue.