September | 2006 | English Russia

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What happens when a state was deprived of the democracy for many many years and then receives it? Delegates of Russian and Ukrainian parlaiments use all the democratic arguments they have, including their hands

and legs. A few days ago we had here a video of Mr. Zhirinovsky, Russian Parliament Chairman Deputy fighting with his colleague, today we have a democracy used on practice in Ukrainian parlaiment.

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Russian roads continue surprising me. This shots are made in Chelyabinsk city, but it was commented by native Russian viewers as "it can happen in any Russian

city, for sure". Just take a look: For some sort of a need some construction workers have dug a hole, and no fencing around of it was provided.

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If all the people in Russia someday would stop drinking, there would be left abundant supplies of vodka. What can be done with it? Here are a few everyday life advices for your vodka in case you stopped drinking but a strategic reserve of your vodka is still left in your cellar. The 1. If you soak a

plaster or a bandage with vodka you can remove it from your body smooth and painless. 2. You can clear your faucets with vodka. Just splash some vodka on a faucet covered with some stain and after a few minutes you can wipe it with a dry cloth – the stain would be gone.

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In this article there are some interesting photos of a few Russian churches made in 1910 and today. The fact that makes them more interesting the 1910 photos are color photos also! Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) received a few patents for his color photo technique. He traveled across Russia in the beginning of the 20th century and made thousands of photos. I visited his exhibition and the photos are really stunning, especially when you understand that they were made 100 years ago but are fully in color. That’s a real lost world of Russia before the Soviet era, before WW2 and WW1. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, going first to Norway and England before settling in France. By then, the tsar and his family had been executed during the Russian Revolution, and the Communist rule had been established over what was once the Russian Empire. His unique images of Russia on the eve of the revolution — recorded on glass plates — were purchased by the United States' Library of Congress in 1948 from his heirs. In 2001, the Library of Congress produced an exhibition, The Empire that was Russia. For this exhibition, the glass plates

were scanned and color images were produced digitally from the scanned red, green, and blue monochrome images, using a process called Digichromatography which was developed by Walter Frankhauser. In 2004, the Library contracted with Blaise Agüera y Arcas to produce an automated color composite of each of the 1,902 negatives from the high resolution digital images of the glass plate negatives. A complete description of his process and a list of other sites that have prepared digital color composite images are in the collection profile at the Library of Congress. And here are the few photos of some churches in Seliger region that were made by Prokudin-Gorskii almost 100 years ago and each photo goes with a corresponding photo of the same place made nowadays. Church in Ostashkov small town, 96 years ago. Check out the horse coach on the right. In the beginning of the 20th century when in the USA there were already 1,000,000 people in Russia there were only a few hundreds of passenger cars, the most common mean of transport was a horse powered transport.

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Just another portion of photos from Russian streets. Let's start with some Russian street racing photos:

This is Lada 21099 with some heavy heavy tuning. It's so heavy that it can probably barely move.

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I knew that there happen to be some factories in countries like India or China which make fake soft drinks, I knew that there are in Russia such factories also, I knew that they ship their ready made production to

shops and sell like legit one, but what was a surprise for me is when a lady makes fake mineral water (puts on labels) right in the middle of the big shopping mall in Ukraine (former USSR). Take a look:

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Just stop for a while and think what if in your country the second person in the parlaiment, the head of parlaiment would be like the

Russian one, who makes all the crazy things below: He walks almost naked in Russian winter when it's freezing cold and...

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A funny video, made in Russian university during a maths class. A guy starts to behave himself crazy, the professor lady stands stunned, can’t say anything, other students are amazed. This

reminded me about bright Russian mathematician Gregory Perelman and his also not so common behavior, and I wondered was he also making such performances while studying maths?

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There is a very funny sect of extreme Christians in Russia. They look really cool. They became popular for breaking up a Moscow gay parade this year, together with some radical Orthodox Christian priests. At that time gay parade was canceled. That included a public speech of Moscow mayor who said something like “Moscow and Russia are not that liberal to allow this to happen”. You can imagine how far Moscow and Russia are liberal after that. Now, from

their point of view, which doesn’t differ from a point of a Russian Orthodox Church officials, Madonna shouldn’t have a concert in September, 2006 in Moscow. She simply doesn’t have any right for that, because from their point of view she is totally evil pop star. They wear black cloths which is a wild mix of German Nazi military cloths with some Russian military elements and a lot of Christian symbolics and items.

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The 1st of September is a holiday for students. The day when they make one more step to their professional top by studying. And by working for some of them. All the time students were considered as the poorest social group. But years go

by and now we can see more and more working students that sometimes seem to be studying workers. In St.-Petersburg there are a lot of ways to earn and places to work. Let’s see the most acceptable for students.

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