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# Russia Is Not Only Bears, Vodka and the Balalaika
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/rossiia-eto-ne-tolko-medvedi-vodka-i-balalaika/
- Published: 2021-04-21T12:35:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:41:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Observations, Palaeontology, Nature, Humour

Russia is not only bears, vodka and the balalaika. It is also a three-metre mammoth tusk priced like a studio flat, on a classified-ads site. The photograph, incidentally, is splendid.