It was a Soviet legend, one and only Russian water stadium, in Moscow. The place where Russian
athletes could do surfing on public. Surfing was so exotic for Russia.. Now it lays abandoned.
Some bloggers report that there is now a new way to express their disagreement with road police has been spotted in Ukraine. When a driver doesn't agree with some speeding tickets or other penalties from the road police he
turns his plates up-side-down to show his disregard for police. Actually in Ukraine it has not been clearly stated in the traffic laws how the car plate should be mounted, so they cannot be penalized for this.
Categories History, Photos, Russian Art, Society
In Soviet Russia you couldn't take some paint tin and go draw something on the walls, just because if you've been caught you go directly to jail. All graffiti were considered an evil
propaganda, so only approved from the Communist party wall-art could appear. Some still remain there until nowadays - like this one in one of Moscow subway stations.
Some more black and white photos of Soviet Russia. Some call such photos nostalgic some - propaganda.
Nevertheless people depicted on them differ greatly from any other people in the world now.
Those Russian bearded guys cannot stand Harry Potter books, especially the latest one.
They gather in groups in public places and burn down a couple of "Harry Potters".
A giant hole has appeared right in the middle of Russian town Berezniki. It's hard to say what caused it to
happen but it's a great luck that there were no cars or people on the road wich got underground.
One guy was walking across the street and saw an ambulance. He decided to give a fast look inside
through one of its windows just of curiosity. And he was really puzzled with what he saw inside:
These guys penetrated the abandoned and sealed science lab of Russian Army which conducted sophisticated experiments studying human and animal brains. They got a lot photos of many test samples in an abandoned
state but still excellent condition. You can see even the last Soviet leader Gorbachev that was left in rush - it was the time of his rule when the lab was closed and sealed from civilians.
One Russian guy in Kharkov, Ukraine preferred was obsessed with some idea which he tried to express in writing on any flat
surface he met. All his flat carried his scriptures, the local lobbies and walls of houses also had not stayed untouched.
These are photos from Miss Russia 2007. The ladies that were
chosen "most of the most" are in the end of the list.
