A house has collapsed in Baku, the capital
of Azerbaijan, former USSR part...
When you travel to Russia, choose your taxi carefully! Or you
might get a ride with anybody like this Moscow taxi cab...
Categories Culture, Exclusive, Photos, Russian Art
It is true, that lions is the symbol of the St. Petersburg. Walking in the city you can meet the images of lions almost everywhere: on the bridges, in facades of the houses and in the most of historical places. So it
is nothing surprising that the charity act, that took place in the city this summer, was called "The Lion Parade". See the exclusive footage of the Lion Parade from our special photographer.
This is a typical Ural landscape. Looking at this picture it is hard to imagine, how this beautiful nature can be changed by the human activity. But such is the
reality... The industrial city Karabash has been founded in 1822. It took only about 170 years to make a local ecocatastrophe in this place.
Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Technology
Some people argue about the origin of the crop circles. Some say they are done by UFOs. This one above could be done
with the wooden UFO like this one: It could have come through the Wooden Hyperspace, like this one:
Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Art
Lately owners of luxury cars in Moscow prefer not to airbrush the whole car as it's considered as an outdated
fashion. The new trend now is to paint wheels only and leave the car untouched. Like this one.
Categories Funny, Photos, Technology
This Russian lady has started a production of earrings made of... electric bulbs. Orders have already started to come, well at
least it's something different from the regular gold/silver jewelery which was so popular during long Soviet era.
Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Art
Since the ancient Greece and Egypt many architects used pillars in the houses they built. Even nowadays some people use pillars to add some kind of style to their houses. In Russia pillars were also used during Stalin era in
different Soviet Palaces and even regular houses. But before, in 19th century, in Russian villages there was also fashion for pillars and they made them of... wood. Like in the building on these photos.
Categories Photos, Technology
Last week the International Air Show "MAKS 2007" took place near Moscow, during it the visitors were able to see the most various aircraft models of the different
countries, piloting by the best world-famous pilots. Some photos of this event below. See also: Military Aircraft Show in Monino. Moscow
One our friend was in a Russian province and visited some disco parties there. He
has sent us these photos which we decided to leave without any comments.
