Brooklyn Net Andrei Kirilenko Is Bringing Russia Its First Hooters

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Brooklyn Net Andrei Kirilenko Is Bringing Russia Its First Hooters
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Amid simmering tensions between the Kremlin and the White House, can Russians and Americans find any cultural common ground?

NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) player Andrei Kirilenko of the Brooklyn Nets thinks there's one place where Russia and the West can put politics aside. That place is Hooters, which Kirilenko is introducing to his home country by opening Russia's first franchise of the **torious — and quintessentially American — boobs-and-buffalo wings chain in Moscow later this month.

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Kirilenko says the cultural chasm isn't as wide as some might think. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/kirilenko-russia-hooters/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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