We continue to talk to foreigners, who visited Novosibirsk, about their life in this city. Markus Trapp and Stefan Rybkowski took part in a Russian-German bloggers meeting called sib_STANCIJA this march. Read More
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World’s Strongest Vagina Discovered in Novosibirsk
Tatiana Kozhevnikova with her balls. Photos: intimfitness.com.
A Russian woman has set a new world record, lifting a 14-kg glass ball with her vagina muscles. Tatiana Kozhevnikova of Novosibirsk, aged 42, has been exercising her intimate muscles for fifteen years. Read More
First Beer Commercial in North Korea
North Korea’s latest launch is not missiles, but a TV advertising campaign for a locally-brewed beer.
The advert, billed as the “Pride of Pyongyang”, [promises drinkers](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8132199.stm) that the beer will help ease stress. “It represents the new look of Pyongyang. It will be a familiar part of our lives”, the advert says.
Taedonggang Beer Factory has been making the brew since 2002.
Michael Shalenko-Jackson
A Russian woman from Novosibirsk region [has decided to name](http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090701/155402377.html) her newborn son after Michael Jackson.
Jackson fan Yevgenia Shalenko, 29, gave birth to a boy on the day of the pop legend’s death.
“My son’s birthday is both the happiest and the saddest day of my life, as the first thing I learned after recovering from labor was that Jackson had died”, Shalenko told.
The woman has already filed a request to register her son as Michael Shalenko-Jackson.
Spider-Man in Moscow
A natural gas pipeline [exploded](http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/377036.htm) in western Moscow early Sunday, sending flames up to 200 meters into the air in what a top city official called the largest fire in the capital since World War II.
The spectacular fire drew a large crowd of onlookers, including a person who showed up wearing a Spider-Man suit but abstained from any attempts at heroics. “Mayor himself called me! — Spider-Man announced to everyone. — He asked me to save Moscow from fire!”
[More photos of fire](http://q-u-a-t-t-r-o.livejournal.com/191332.html?mode=reply) and it’s [consequences](http://1beer.livejournal.com/33508.html?mode=reply).