The Russian blogosphere conveniently, if bafflingly, revolves around LJ. Each week, RUSSIA! scans the chatter and brings you the top five topics.

• Fresh from RuTube, blogger apchehov brings us a video of a masked seven from the Russian police special forces stopping and arresting the driver of a black porsche. The driver and passenger seem frightened and confused as they are yanked from the car, wrestled to the ground, prodded with guns, and yelled at... probably because the police has the wrong black porsche. The said wrong porsche later speeds away, broken windows and all, as the police go after the next black porsche. "Don't tell me this happens in every country," blogger concludes. [Аккуратнее, любители красивых циферок]

• There's nothing quite like frequent air travel to inspire hate for your fellow man. Blogger Evgeny Abramov delivers a comprehensive and gratingly sarcastic list titled "Rules of Conduct on a Plane: the Russian Version." Comrades' offenses include constantly fondling the emergency exit door knob, loudly singing songs about the ill fate of the honorable thief, and smoking in the lavatory after drunkenly disabling the smoke detector by covering it with a condom. A comment debate of Rules are Rules vs What Are Rules For Anyway follows. [Правила поведения пассажиров на борту воздушного судна. Российская версия.]

• After an angry entry got him invited to be on a Moscow talk show, Vasya Lozhkin, the self-proclaimed Terrible Cyberspace Imbecile, vents the unpleasant experience on LJ. Provoked by the TV show's overall artifice, he lays into everything from the "actors hired to play morons" to the "psychologist coaching me to be cheery and expressive so the idiot audience doesn't change the channel" to the host who "appeared to have tiny horns growing from his head, his tiny, swine eyes sparkling with the fires of hell." The entry also features a satirical oil painting of a rabbit execution, for sale by author. [Про телевизор изнутри]

• Blogger fima-psuchopadt investigates the panic over sad-eyed plush puppies, handed to Moscow mega-mart customers who collect enough reward stamps by purchasing $382 worth of food. At first, there were "more toys at the store than crap behind a bath house," but towards the end of the promotion, a televised and internet-wide hysteria erupted over the last of the pups. The readers are bewildered with this general idiocy, but one commenter explains: "Nothing compares to our love for free shit." [Собачий скандал]

• Editor of political journals and host of a cultural talk show Vitaliy Tretyakov is fed up with Alla Pugacheva. As Russia's biggest pop star... ever, Pugacheva recently celebrated her 60th birthday and had her fabulous presence bombarded across all television channels. According to Tretyakov, it's a bit much; he thinks that calling someone so joyfully vulgarity a cultural hero is hasty. Readers debate. Pugacheva continues to reign. [ПУГАЧЕВА: СЛИШКОМ МНОГО И СЛИШКОМ ЧАСТО]