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But not all of them. I hope at least someone from The Smoking Section will appreciate that joke.

Anyway, this Russian rap video has everything you’d expect from a Russian rap video — gangsters bragging about what appears to be Monopoly money, beautiful woman with incredible midsections who will morph into horrid-looking old ladies when they turn 25, random dudes in judo clothes — and, most importantly, Alexander Ovechkin. In a sideways hat. Rapping. All it needs is TaTU and someone piledriving a bear and it’s basically every Russian thing in history.

As a hockey fan it makes me kinda sad to see teaching someone how to do the Soviet Dougie. As a Caps fan, I have to defend it by challenging Sidney Crosby to remember an entire verse without his brain shutting down. That’s what it’s come to, isn’t it? Which guy’s brain is more irreparably damaged.

Feel free to hop over to Puck Daddy and browse the transcribed lyrics, wherein Ovie brags about all the cool championships he’s won and being in the All-Star Game. Nothing in there about the Stanley Cup, though.

Vladimir Putin, Russia’s former president and now prime minister, has released a judo instructional video (watch it after the jump, via FanHaus).  Putin, who rose to prominence through his service in the KGB, almost kind of maybe seems to want Russians to perceive him a certain way.  From the New York Times:

Just weeks after Russia’s state-run media reported that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin had saved a news crew from a wild tiger, he is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video…

The video is part of a growing media library highlighting Mr. Putin’s masculinity that includes episodes of Mr. Putin, a former K.G.B. agent, bare-chested on a fishing expedition and in flight in a fighter jet. No cameras were rolling when Mr. Putin was said to have tranquilized the tiger as it stalked the journalists who had accompanied the prime minister and some scientists on a scientific expedition to Russia’s Far East in late August.

Some people may think Putin’s trying too hard to come off as a virile alpha male, but I think he’s been pretty subdued about his exploits.  Why, just last Tuesday, he ran an Iron Man triathlon.  It wasn’t an official race or anything, he just wanted a good workout that day.  And he would have finished sooner if he hadn’t stopped to foil that bank robbery, which became a real time-suck when those two lingerie models insisted on showing him their gratitude.  And he was all, “I will do it, but only for the good of Russia and your happiness as citizens.”  And the women experienced earthly pleasures they had never known.

You don’t hear the media reporting that, do you?  Because Putin’s too modest.

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