For months now, our foreign readers have been asking us, "What's a gopnik?" They have a vague idea of what a gopnik looks like, thanks to our Face Control page: tough Russian dudes with bad skin and blank fuck-if-I-care expressions. They're the guys who look more comfortable squatting than standing. But more than anything else, they're the last males on planet earth who can get away with wearing those 20s-style leather gangster caps without looking like drama school fags rehearsing for a musical.

What makes the gopniki so fucking cool to behold is that they exist beyond irony. If the gopniki are anything, they are "authentic." In an era in which "authenticity" is the most valued and rarest attribute of all, the gopniki rank at the top of the white world's coolness hierarchy.

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Fuck off and die.

What does gopnik mean? I know Adam Gopnik, who is a writer for the New Yorker.

This is how the gopniks look like in the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bids3P6E_JU

SO would Gopniki get along well with Chavs and Wiggers?

I miss exile.ru. They used to have some hilarious commentary on this shit.

Russia and Russians are good for yuks. Look at Alex. He's a fetal vodka syndrome victim probably born by a Chernobyl victim Ukrainian whore.

^^ No, no, no. Alex is great.

Not always funny, not always witty, not always wise.

But always tasteful.