The most famous awards in the world. Who is the worst: “Golden Raspberry”, “Shnobel” and other anti-awards Lantern Rouge Award
Sex is one of the topics that traditionally attracts the attention of readers. What writer can resist inserting a couple of piquant scenes into his work? Moans, sighs and are always more popular than falafel at a hipster matinee. But it’s as easy to ruin a description of sex as it is to spoil the sex itself, well, we don’t have to tell you. Therefore, since 1993, the British magazine Literary Review has been giving writers an award for the worst description of sex in novels, not in romance or erotica, but in serious literature. At first the prize was given to all nominees, but since 1994 the jury chose to award one winner.
In 1994, Philip Hawke won the prize for his description of a kiss in the novel “The Stonebreakers”: “Their jaws met in a feverish grinding of each other.” It is strange that the book also received an anti-award from the dental association.
In 1995, the award went to presenter Philip Kerr for an excerpt from his debut novel, The Grill: “His astronomically long instrument looked tense and very worried, because he had to perform a very elegant and at the same time mysterious and dark task.” Do you understand what we're talking about? We are almost!
The prize also went to writers who compared the vagina to an exotic mushroom in a tree crevice and to wet rubber in 1996 and ’97. In 2001, the award went to the author of a passage about a penis, “cold and lifeless, like the North Pole,” and in 2006, to a writer who compared a penis to a shower jerking in an empty bathtub.
Last year's nominees were 2014 Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Haruki Murakami for his book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Wandering, and Scottish journalist and BBC presenter Kirsty Vock for her debut novel. "The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle." Richard Flanagan's sex scene is interrupted by the appearance of a dog with a dead penguin in its mouth, Murakami describes a threesome using mathematical terms ("she began to slowly rotate her torso, as if drawing a complex diagram in the air"), and Kirsty Vock's characters "keep lava behind their cheeks." We hope you're not excited!
Pigasus Award
The Pigasus Prize (its name combines the words pig and pegasus - “pig” and “pegasus”) has been awarded since 1982 for the greatest contribution to pseudoscience. Its founder, James Randi, a skeptic and paranormal debunker, personally selects nominees from among those who claim to have supernatural powers. The award is given in several categories: “Pseudoscience”, “Charlatan of the Year”, “Most Useless Research” and “Most Paranormal Media”. Winners include the Montel Williams Show, which regularly features a mentally ill woman named Sylvia Brown, and Canadian psychiatrist Colin A. Ross, who claims he can shoot electromagnetic beams from his eyes.
James Randi does not hand out awards personally, but sends them to winners using telekinesis. And if someone did not receive an award, it was solely because his paranormal abilities were not in order.
The most famous winner of the prize was the British illusionist Uri Geller, who bent spoons with the power of his thoughts. The award even bore his name in its early days. Uri Geller repeatedly sued Svinasus for libel, but did not win a single case. It would be better to use your energy to damage the cutlery in James Randi's house.
Lantern Rouge Award
The award has been awarded since 1903 in the Tour de France cycling race for last place. It is a red lantern (as, in fact, “Lantern Rouge” is translated), similar to those that were hung on the last carriage of the train. Oddly enough, receiving it was not considered disgraceful at all, and race participants even competed to come last. This ensured them the attention of the public and the press. In 1980, the Tour de France even had to make an official statement that cyclists who deliberately came last in order to receive the Lantern Rouge would be disqualified.
The most famous winner of the award is the Belgian cyclist Wim Vanselvenant, who received it three times. True, then he left sports and became a farmer.
Ernie Award
Ernie, the award for the most sexist statement, is named after the secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, Ernie Ecob, a notorious misogynist in those parts. He is responsible for the famous saying that women are not even fit to shear sheep. Therefore, accordingly, there is a sheep on the top of the Ernie Award.
The awards are a gala dinner attended by about 400 women, and the winner is determined by the whistling of his name. The award is awarded in several categories, and its winners at different times have been famous politicians, lawyers, public figures, athletes and journalists. Women can also become winners of the prize for manifestations of misogyny.
The most famous winner of the sexist award is politician John Maloney, the mayor of a small Australian town, who invited women to come to his native Mountain Ice, since the men there are absolutely picky.
Big Brother Award
The award, named after a character in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, recognizes the worst violation of privacy and freedom by a government or organization. Organized in 1998 in England, it quickly spread around the world and is currently awarded in 18 countries around the world. (And if you don’t know about it, it’s only thanks to Big Brother making sure you remain in the dark.) The jury consists of scientists, lawyers and journalists, they decide who to “reward” for illegal data collection and intrusion into private life.
The award winners were Google for their controversial policy of collecting information about users, Vladimir Putin for almost all of his actions, and Tony Blair, who received the award in the “smiling puppeteer” category specially created for him.
Stella Award
The award for the most ridiculous judgment, presented in the United States from 1992 to 2007, was named after American Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself at McDonalds and sued the company for $2.9 million.
During its short existence, the award winners included Mary Ubaudi, who sued Mazda for not having seat belt instructions in her car, Christopher Roller, who sued David Copperfield and David Blaine for violating the laws of physics (Christopher himself, by the way, considered himself God) and Judge Roy Person Jr., who filed a lawsuit against a dry cleaner for $65 million because they lost his pants.
The ceremony brought together authors who seriously studied issues that were more like a joke. The real prizes were given - a statuette and 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. It's actually not as much as it seems.
Not too scrupulous housewives already knew, and now science has confirmed: human saliva removes dirt better than a cleaner. Chemists from Portugal tried to clean paintings and gilded sculptures with various reagents from ammonia to toluene. But the old “spit and wipe” method gave the best results.
For 28 years, Harvard University has been flying paper airplanes, fooling around, handing out awards for the most ridiculous scientific achievements, and silencing winners if their acceptance speech lasts more than a minute.
David Wortinger from the University of Michigan made a discovery that, as required by the rules of the Ig Nobel Committee, first made me laugh and then made me think. A trip to Luna Park will help remove kidney stones. One of his patients got rid of three stones at once when he rode a roller coaster.
“Big, powerful rides are not good. What people think. The higher the slide, the faster you fly along it, the better. Nothing like this. We found out that to influence the stones you need to drive slowly, no more than 50 kilometers per hour, but with sharp turns, and so that it shakes a lot. You need to get into the last carriage. Then the stones are crushed well,” said Ig Nobel Prize winner in medicine David Wortinger.
The experience of the Ig Nobel Prize laureates in biology was repeated by the Nobel Prize laureates and honorary guests of the ceremony. And now it has been proven twice: the fruit fly Drosophila can change the taste of wine by getting into it for just a few seconds.
The Nobel in Economics was awarded to a team from Canada, the USA, China and Singapore. Researchers asked disgruntled employees to take it out on a bad boss by transferring their emotions to a voodoo doll.
“People who took revenge on the boss-like doll felt relieved. For them, justice was restored,” explained Ig Nobel Prize laureate in economics Douglas Brown.
“Where is the economy?” - the journalist asked for clarification.
“We don’t even know ourselves. We thought they would give us the Peace Prize!” - answered the scientist.
James Cole from Great Britain proved that ancient people did not engage in cannibalism because of hunger. The calorie content of human meat is only 125 kilocalories, which is several times less than the calorie content of, for example, a mammoth. For his discovery, like all laureates, Cole received 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.
“Well, since I’m a trillionaire now, I’ll probably retire. In general, Zimbabwe, in my opinion, has already switched to dollars. And it's about 30 cents in total. You can’t even buy a hamburger,” said James Cole.
Japanese Akira Horiuchi received an Ignobel for his study “Colonoscopy in a sitting position.” He was convinced from personal experience that performing this procedure while sitting is no less effective than traditionally lying down. And now, like every Ig Nobel laureate, he will be given the opportunity to give a lecture about it at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Already in early October, Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. And in history, by the way, there have been cases when Ig Nobel laureates also received a Nobel a few years later. Therefore, the ceremony in Cambridge traditionally ends with the words: if you are an Ig Nobel laureate, and especially if you are not, we wish you good luck next year!
Stella Award(English: The TRUE Stella Awards) - a prize awarded annually for the most ridiculous judicial decision in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself at a McDonald's restaurant in 1992 and subsequently sued the restaurant, where a jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages.
(Ignobel Prize, Anti-Nobel Prize, Ig Nobel Prize) - a parody of the Nobel Prize, where they are awarded for the most ridiculous and useless research. Ten Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded in early October, that is, at the time when the winners of the real Nobel Prize are named, and the actual Nobel laureates present it to the applicants, and the award ceremony takes place at Harvard and is broadcast on American television and radio in several languages. The prize was founded by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine Annals of Incredible Research in 1991.
Darwin Award("Darwin Awards") - a virtual prize awarded annually to individuals who have died or lost their reproductive function in the most stupid way and, as a result, have deprived themselves of the opportunity to contribute to the gene pool of humanity, thereby improving it. A prerequisite for receiving the prize is the complete absence of direct descendants.
(English Golden Raspberry) is an anti-award created in 1981 by the American John Wilson, recognizing the worst acting, script, director, film song and film of the year. By tradition, the Golden Raspberry nominees are announced the day before the announcement of the Oscar nominees, and the laureates the day before the Oscar laureates. The prize is a plastic raspberry covered in gold spray paint, valued at $5.
« Silver galosh" - an award established by the radio "Silver Rain" is awarded "for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business." Established in 1996, the author of the idea of the award was Pavel Vashchekin, the ceremony takes place annually.
Anti-premium " Glass bolt“was established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and is awarded for stupid or harmful decisions of Moscow officials involved in the “development” of the city. The laureates are awarded the “Glass Bolt” figurine - a symbol of narrow-mindedness and crookedness. Since 2012, the award has been declared all-Russian
Chicken Chicken Award(eng. Chicken Little Award, named after the main character of the cartoon Walt Disney's Chicken Little), full name The "Chicken Little" Award for Exaggerated Predictions About the Impending Destruction of Our Environment - a humorous prize established by the Center for National Concern at the same time as the Julian Simon Prize, awarded for a sober look at the same problems.
Lantern Rouge(French: Lanterne rouge; red lantern) - cyclist who took last place in the overall standings of the Tour de France; also the name of the prize awarded to that athlete. The name comes from the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
World Stupidity Award- an award founded in 2003 to reward the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance. The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs comedy festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
Literary anti-prize "Paragraph" has been awarded since the fall of 2001 in four categories: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). For “particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature” an “Honorary Illiteracy” is awarded. The “prizewinners” are determined by a special expert council based on reader opinions sent to the editorial office of the Knizhnoe Obozrenie newspaper.
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It is interesting to look at a person who has never heard of the Nobel Prize, or knows nothing about the Oscar film award. However, it is always interesting to know where it all began and how these coveted awards came about. In this rating, the site has collected for you the most prestigious awards in the world, the history of their occurrence and the conditions for receiving them. Who knows, perhaps one of the future laureates is among us.
Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel was a fairly successful chemical inventor and engineer. In addition, he owned the Bofors metallurgical concern, whose main activity was the mass production of weapons. In addition, Nobel received income from his inventions, the total number of which exceeded 3 hundred. The main invention that made Nobel famous was dynamite. All this allowed the inventor to accumulate impressive capital, which Nobel intended to pass on to his descendants. But one day in the morning newspaper I read an obituary about myself: “The merchant of death has died.” In fact, a terrible mistake crept into the note, since the inventor’s brother died, and not he himself. But Alfred wondered what kind of memory humanity would have when its last hour struck. As a result, he decided to change his will. Nobel bequeathed his entire capital to be placed in a reliable bank, with the aim of subsequently distributing funds in the form of bonuses to those who made the greatest contribution to the development of science during the year. Pundits were to be encouraged in 5 categories: in the field of physiology and medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and restoration of peace on earth. Since 1900, the Nobel Prize has been awarded according to all the rules drawn up by its founder. In addition, in 1968, at the initiative of the Swedish Bank, one innovation was added: in addition to five nominations, an award for merit in the field of economics was added. The laureates receive the Peace Prize in Norway from the hands of the king. Laureates in all other categories are awarded in Sweden. From the hands of the king they receive a gold medal with a portrait of Nobel, and a check. The amount of the award varies from year to year depending on the income of the Nobel Foundation. Today it is somewhere around 1.5 million dollars.
Oscar Film Award
Grammy - music award
Musicians strive to get their Oscar, we are talking about the Grammy Award. This award was first presented in 1958 at the initiative of the US Recording Industry Association. A year earlier, professional musicians gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the invention of the gramophone. It was at this event that the idea of a music award arose. They also didn’t think long about the name and form of the award. As you know, it has the shape of a small gilded gramophone. For many years, winners were chosen in 30 musical genres in 108 categories. True, in 2011 the number of categories was slightly reduced, now there are 78. Behind the scenes, there are three most prestigious categories, in which it is considered the greatest success to be noted: song of the year, record of the year, album of the year and best new artist. In 2016, Kendrick Ramar, who raps, was nominated in 11 categories. However, these figures cannot be compared with the record of conductor Georg Solti. During the 20 years that he directed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the musician managed to receive 31 Grammy awards, and there were as many as 74 nominations in his career. Among groups, U2 is considered the absolute record holder with 22 statuettes. But the record for the number of awards received in one ceremony is shared between Michael Jackson and Santana. They received 8 statuettes in 1984 and 2000, respectively.
Booker Prize for Literature
The highest literary award was established in 1969, and since then has gained fame as the most prestigious prize in the field of English-language literature. Until 2013, only an author living in a Commonwealth country, Zimbabwe or Ireland could receive the Booker Prize. In addition to this condition, only works created in English were taken into account. Today, the prize can be awarded to any literary work in English, regardless of the author’s nationality. The main sponsor of the award has been the Man Group corporation for almost 15 years. Since then, the name of the award has been The Man Booker Prize. The decision on the winner is made by a special jury, which includes eminent literary critics, public figures and writers. You have to choose from hundreds of applicants. The winner, in addition to an honorary title, will receive a monetary reward, the amount of which is limited to 50 thousand pounds sterling. In the history of the Man Booker Prize, four of its laureates were subsequently also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. And Hilary Mantel, J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey won the Booker twice. But the absolute record holder in terms of receiving awards was Iris Murdoch, because she received the Booker as many as 6 times.
Ig Nobel Prize for useless discoveries
Many scientists secretly hope to one day receive a Nobel Prize for their work. However, some are awarded only an ironic Ig Nobel Prize. This idea is nothing more than a parody of a prestigious award in the field of science. True, it is awarded in a very serious place - at Harvard. Moreover, the laureates are very real scientists, whose discoveries and inventions turned out to be absolutely useless for humanity. The main condition for receiving this award is the humorous component of scientific work. After all, as the motto of the Ig Nobel Prize says, it is awarded for inventions that first make you smile, and only then make you think. Thus, among the examples there is a serious scientific work on how the presence of a person affects the libido of ostriches, or a study of the harms and benefits of kissing. The nominees are awarded by real Nobel laureates, with fake noses and fake glasses. However, history knows one Ig Nobel laureate, who was awarded the Nobel Prize a little later. Physicist Andrei Geim became him. Truly, there is only one step from the great to the ridiculous.
Darwin Award for ridiculous deaths
Quite cynical criteria for selecting the winners of the annual Darwin Awards. After all, according to the terms of the prize, those who absurdly ended their own lives without leaving descendants are awarded, i.e. behind . Thus, with the help of black humor, the founders hint at Darwin's theory of natural selection. They say that fools who killed themselves out of their own stupidity thus saved humanity from defective genes. But don’t think that only dead people can be nominated for this award. The Darwin Award has been awarded several times to people who, as a result of stupid carelessness, lost their reproductive function. So, escaping from a police chase, petty swindler Richard Greg Oliver decided to jump over the fence. At that moment, the gun in his pocket went off, instantly ending any hope Oliver had of ever becoming a father. And if things don’t work out with the descendants, then Mr. Oliver already has the Darwin Award. It’s sad, but the award has no shortage of nominees.
Fields Medal in Mathematics
It's no secret that mathematicians have never won a Nobel Prize. This science is simply not on the list specified in the will of the founder himself. They say that it was no coincidence that Alfred Nobel deprived mathematicians of the opportunity to receive bonuses. Nobel's contemporary was the brilliant Swedish mathematician Mittag-Leffler, for whom the founder of the prize had a strong dislike. Whether this was due to the attentions the mathematician showed to Nobel’s wife, or something else, history is silent. But still there are no mathematicians among the Nobel Prize laureates. And the representatives of this science would have remained deprived if not for John Fields. In 1924, while presiding over the International Congress of Mathematicians, he proposed, as part of this event, to recognize young mathematicians for certain achievements. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Fields Prize is awarded only once every 4 years. Only mathematicians under 40 years of age are awarded a gold medal and a relatively small cash prize of 15 thousand Canadian dollars. The age restrictions were proposed by Fields himself, so he hoped to encourage young scientists to new achievements. If you like math, don't miss it.
Turing Award for Computer Science
Professionals working in the field of information technology can count on receiving the Turing Award. The winner is determined by the Association of Computing Machinery, which became the founder of the award. You can only become a Turing Award winner once; it is not awarded to the same person again. One or two nominees are awarded per year. The first winner of the award was Alan Perlis, and this happened in 1966. Until 2014, the award was sponsored by two large corporations: Google and Intel. And at that time the winner received 250 thousand dollars. Now Google is the only sponsor left. And today the laureate can count on $1 million in prize money. By tradition, the winner must give a lecture at which he highlights innovative ideas in the field of information technology.
Pritzker Prize for Architecture
Architects have a chance to become $100,000 rich. Those who receive the Pritzker Prize have this opportunity. This award was established in 1979 by the Pritzker family, who are also the owners of the Hyatt hotel chain in different countries around the world. The winners are those who generate innovative design ideas in the field of architecture. It is curious that each time the award is presented in different places. Thus, the Pritzker Prize has already been awarded within the walls of the National Gallery in Washington, at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg, on Capitol Hill in Rome and even in the White House. Each time, the awards ceremony itself is preceded by exhibitions of works by all laureates.
Often, when taking on something, a person does not expect to receive any special recognition. He is simply passionate about what he loves, and does his job exceptionally well, because he doesn’t know how to do otherwise. It is all the more pleasant to receive a well-deserved reward for your efforts, unless it is a Darwin Award.
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We are accustomed to prizes being awarded for certain achievements and merits. But unfortunately, the examples that individuals or organizations set are not only positive, but also negative.
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And some part of society also considers it necessary to celebrate some of the most striking of such negative examples, not so that others will repeat them, of course, but vice versa. This post contains a list of the most famous “anti-prizes”, i.e. prizes that are awarded for dubious, stupid and harmful actions and “achievements”.
Darwin Award
Perhaps the most indisputable anti-premium. After all, it is awarded to those who, due to their own stupidity, died or lost the opportunity to have offspring and thereby removed their genes from the gene pool of humanity. The name of the award alludes to the principle of natural selection formulated by Darwin - for the development of a species, the best must survive, and the worst, including the stupidest, must die. For more than a dozen years, the prize has been awarded (mostly posthumously) to many people who have passed away in the most ridiculous ways. For example, in 1996 the prize winner was Krzysztof Azninski, 30 years old, from Poland. Together with friends, Krzysztof celebrated his imminent wedding. When one of the guests suggested that everyone strip naked and “go crazy for the last time,” everyone immediately agreed. At first, the guys ran after each other with frozen turnips in their hands and tried to hit their partner as hard as possible. However, then someone came across a chainsaw. Krzysztof's future best man grabbed her and declared that he would show her what real men could do. Before the friends had time to look back, he turned on the saw and cut off his foot. This is where Krzysztof’s finest hour came. With a cry “Just think - a leg, this is nonsense! Is it so weak? he cut off his own head in the blink of an eye. “It’s all strange,” one of Krzysztof’s friends later recalled. “As a child, he loved to wear his older sister’s underwear. And he died like a real man.”
Ig Nobel Prize
The most famous of the awards for dubious scientific achievements. It's easy to guess from the title that it parodies the Nobel Prize. The prize has been awarded since 1991 and many not only British scientists, but also scientists from other countries have become its laureates. Interestingly, the prize is officially awarded at Harvard, the prize is presented by real Nobel laureates, and the ceremony is broadcast on American television. For example, one of the prizes in the field of probability theory was awarded by the organizing committee of the Ig Nobel Prize to a team from the Scottish Agricultural College. They found that “the longer a cow lies down, the more likely it is that she will get up soon.” There is no inverse relationship - “it is impossible to easily predict when a standing cow will lie down again.” In the experiments, scientists were not content with a visual assessment; sensors were attached to the cow's legs, recording the time spent by the cows in a lying and standing position.
Stella Award
An award given to the dumbest court decisions or lawsuits in the United States. The award was named after Stella Liebeck, who, after buying hot coffee at McDonald's, spilled it on herself and then filed a lawsuit against the company because she was not warned that the coffee was hot and could get burned. Then the court made a decision obliging the company to pay almost $3 million in compensation for damage caused. Since American citizens love to litigate, and the US judicial system is full of miracles, there are plenty of nominations for the award. Among the people awarded the Stella Prize, for example, are the following. A certain lady was driving in her car along a snowy road when a pedestrian suddenly ran out onto the road. Not having time to stop the car in time, the woman hit the poor guy, who later died before her eyes. A few days later, the lady sued the widow of the pedestrian she hit, demanding compensation for moral damages. She stated that her peace of mind had suffered an irreparable blow as she watched the death throes of the deceased, and that for this suffering she was entitled to compensation from the widow. Another American woman went to the store and decided to buy a coffee maker. Four coffee makers in boxes stood on a shelf, one on top of the other in a column. The woman pulled out the lowest box. Of course, the top three boxes immediately fell on her. She sued the store for failing to warn her that if she removed the bottom box, the top boxes could fall on her and cause her physical harm.
"Golden Raspberry"
A popular “anti-award” in the cinema industry. It traditionally marks the most dubious achievements in the field of cinematography over the past year. This award is a parody of the Oscars and is awarded in 11 categories. Every ten years, “outstanding” films of the decade are awarded, and in 2005, the 25th anniversary award ceremony took place, during which the worst films and actors for the entire existence of the “anti-award” were highlighted. Until 2008, the record for the number of collected raspberries was held by the films “Battlefield: Earth” and “Show Girls” - each of them was “lucky” to grab 7 awards. In 2008, the film “I Know Who Killed Me” broke the record - 8 awards out of 9 nominations. The unsurpassed actor in terms of the number of awards received to date is Sylvester Stallone, who has collected 10 awards over his long creative life.
"Silver Galosh"
Russian “anti-prize”, established in 1996 by the radio “Silver Rain”. It is awarded annually for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business. Since its inception, many famous artists, officials and politicians have become laureates of the award.
"Paragraph"
Another “anti-prize”, which since 2001 has been awarded for the most dubious “achievements” in the field of book printing. It is awarded in four main categories and one additional: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for “particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature”, in As a bonus prize, an “Honorary Certificate” is awarded. The “laureates” are determined by a special expert council based on reader opinions sent to the editorial office of the Knizhnoe Obozrenie newspaper.
Runet Anti-Premium
Russian independent award for alternative achievements in the field of Runet - both positive and dubious - “as opposed to” the Runet Prize. The Runet Anti-Prize is awarded to both Internet projects and individuals who, for some reason, were bypassed by official competitions, awards and bonuses.
Glass Bolt Award
Established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of developing the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.
Latern Rouge
The award is given to the cyclist who finishes last in the Tour de France. Translated as “Red Lantern”, this award is named after the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.