Matryoshka dolls
(It's a wooden doll, within a doll, within a doll, etc.)

The Fabergé eggs
(Jeweled sculptures resembling eggs, virtually priceless.)

Grigori Rasputin
(A mystic who was supposedly; poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned.)

Alexander Karelin
(Previously undefeated Greco-Roman wrestler who was upset by Rulon Gardner at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.)

The Tunguska event
(Inexplicable massive explosion which happened in Siberia in 1908.)

The Heavy and his Sandvich.

That infamous ricin umbrella assassination.

Odd looking text encodings in my web browser.

Junk mail.
(Somehow, less annoying than the West African variety.)

Zombie networks.

The word "comrade".
(Strangely, couldn't find the Russian antonym for this word.)

My association to Russia has changed somewhat with the Georgia war. I think it is now mainly threat to peace and stability in the world.