"Facts" about Russia through the eyes of foreigners Bashny.Net

Many foreigners are very much mistaken about the life of Russians, believing that we are still playing the balalaika, walk tame bears and only drink vodka. And convince them this is very difficult. The website shares with the reader the stereotypes about Russians and Russia, in which the aliens assured for all hundred percent. We found them on one of the American sites short of facts and moved.





1. The territory of Russia much more than the entire area of Pluto.

2. Seventy-seven percent of the territory of Russia is Siberia.

3. A year every Russian drank eighteen liters of alcohol.

4. Men in Russia for nine millions less than in women.

5. The border of Russia and America are separated by only 4 km of the Bering Strait.

6. Every year because of alcohol in Russia kills half a million people.

7. In Russia, the parents do not tell children that there are gays because it is illegal.

8. In 1700 one Russian woman gave birth to 7 triplets, 4 quadruplets, and 16 sets of twins over 40 years of marriage with the same person.

9. Due to the fact that in 1908, Russia was still on the Julian calendar, the team came to the Olympics in London, late for twelve days.

10. In 1867 America bought Alaska from the Russians for seven million.

11. Russian botanists have cultivated a plant whose seeds are kept 32000 years.

12. Russia and Japan never signed a peace Treaty, signifying the end of World war II due to the Kuril Islands

13. In 2009, politician Mikhail Gorbachev released a compilation album of romantic songs.

14. In 2013 alone, the beer was officially recognized in Russia as an alcoholic beverage.

15. In 1959, scientists in Russia began with the domestication of foxes.

16. During the reign of Peter the great, bearded men had to pay a special tax.

17. In major Russian museums, cats specifically so that they would catch rats.

18. The word "water" is the root of the word "vodka".

19. The dirtiest lake in the world — the Russian Karachay.

20. Booze is twenty-five percent of Russians do not live up to 55 years.

21. If you go on a dirty car in Russia, you'd be arrested.

22. In Russia there are fifteen towns whose name and location is top secret.

23. More than a third of Russians think that the Sun revolves around the Earth, not Vice versa.

24. Rich people in Russia drive around in ambulances, of course, is not real, to avoid traffic jams.

25. During the crisis the salaries of teachers and other employees give vodka.

26. In lake Baikal is 20% of all unfrozen fresh water on the planet.

27. Russian Vladimir Nikolayev was a maniac and not only ate part of the body of one of his victims, but treated her the wife of his friend by convincing that it is kangaroo meat.

28. The Russian stock market is much smaller than the whole company "Apple".

29. In Russia there are nearly nine thousand units of nuclear weapons. This is much more than in all other countries of the world.

30. In 1600 the eruption of the Peruvian volcano killed more than two million Russians.

via factroom.ru