August | 2006 | English Russia

You can meet Comrade Stalin for example, sitting on the common passenger seat of Moscow subway.

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If you ever think about travel to Russia and visit Moscow, you might like visit Moscow subway. It's definetely worth looking. First of all architecture of Moscow subway is astonishing, I think I'll make a separate post about architecture of Moscow subway, because each stop, each station is so nice. During Soviet era

amounts worth of millions dollars were invested in the construction of Moscow subway. Each station is like museum, with huge patchworks occupying some walls, high ceilings and antique type chandeliers. And in those magnificent interriors nowadays you can meet people that look like really weird.

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This creature was found by Russian soldiers on Sakhalin shoreline. Sakhalin area is situated near to Japan, it's the most eastern part of Russia, almost 5000 miles to East from Moscow (Russia is huge). People don't know who is it. According to the bones and teeth - it is not a fish. According to

its skeleton - it's not a crocodile or alligator. It has a skin with hair or fur. It has been said that it was taken by Russian special services for in-depth studies, and we are lucky that people who encountered it first made those photos before it was brought away.

First channel of russia changed cloths of gregory perelman photo.

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In modern Russia there are around 20-30 TV channels, but the most important to any Russian middle aged person is “Channel 1” or “The First Channel”. This channel has the most wide coverage area and is being watched regularly by the majority of the population in Russia. I think that every citizen of Russia who owns TV-set watches “Channel 1” from time to time. So a few days ago there was a “Fields Medal” event, and Russian genius, Dr. Gregory Perelman, the bright mathematician who solved the “Poincare Conjecture” refused his award. It’s a well known story now, being discussed a lot. What is interesting – Mr. Perelman has left St. Petersburg where he lived and worked, and nobody knows where is he. And even the national media number one, “The First

Channel” could not find him for an interview. They had to have him in the night news regarding his unclaimed Fields Medal and another 1 million dollar prize – but nobody managed to find him. So they decided to take a picture of the professor from the source known for anybody now, from Internet. They dug a little and got Associated Press image that was shown on different other medias. But editors in “Channel 1” decided that the exterior of the genius is not cool, they couldn’t imagine they would broadcast somebody with a brilliant mind and not wearing a tie and a suit. That are the traces of the Soviet thinking, for many years people were kept very strict and nothing changed now. Look what they have done:

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This story happened a few days ago in Ekaterinburg city, in Ural region in Russia. One man decided to add some money to his bank account via ATM. He went to the nearest one and put 2,000 roubles (around $74). The ATM took the money and returned him a slip. Here is the

photo of that slip: The amount on the slip was 2,006,699,00 RUR (around $7,430,000). He was astonished, he has got another slip – and still the amount was the same. So he decided to go the bank and tell them about the mistake ATM made.

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Somebody turned Russian

car niva into a SUV...

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Some Russian artists think that there should be some unique, Russian style in depicting Russian beauty, for example mixing it with fairy-tales. You can see in this gallery drawings of

Nikolay Fomin and his view on Russian beauty and Russian fairy tales: Russian Sauna Bathing. Spot the underwater girl, swimming under the ice. Especially her eyes.

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This is a Moscow city scale model. It is back from USSR times, when Soviet leaders had a little craze on making such

epic compositions. It was ordered from an artist Efim Deshalyt in 1976. The size of the model exceeds 400 sqft.

Russian Orthodox Church Priests live good

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Somebody has spotted some meeting of Russian Orthodox Church priests. The Church is known in Russia for a vast

commercial activities, it's no surprise that priests drive nicer cars that an average Russian citizen:

Think twice if you want to travel to Russia

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Another Welcome to Russia

commercial by enthusiasts:

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Astonishing view of one of the cities most beautiful church is on fire right now, August 25th,

2006. People reported they heard a "boom", probably terrorist action is suspected.

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