April | 2009 | English Russia

Russian Mountains near Murmans, Hibini Mountains

Categories History, Photos, Society, Sports

We have mentioned some time ago the abandoned cities of Kola Peninsula, left by people and Russian army, now standing alone with only severe Northern winds inhabiting them. This place is also on Kola Cape, but they got

better fate. One of the reasons for this is because of the Hibini mountains, which got this region a travel twist. Now around some abandoned Soviet structures one can use the ski lifts and skiing trace.

Categories Funny, Photos, Society

Tens of Russian young men and women have gathered in Moscow to participate in strange action. They have all got there to... throw their shoes in the

photo of George Bush and some other people, that were drawn on the basketball stand. The slogan of the action was "I won't miss!".

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Today is April the First, the April's Fool day, many people are busy doing jokes and pranks on their coleagues and friends. In Russia this tradition is also recognized and many do funny and sometimes not-so-funny stuff. Probably, the most loud prank that hit today's Russia was a prank made by the group of youngsters of St.Petersburg. They have found somewhere explosives, equaled to 300g TNT, and put it inside the iron steel Lenin monument

standing on the city square across the railway station. Then at four o'clock in the morning they blew up the explosives so starting early morning of April, 1st 2009 all coming to St.Petersburg railway station or leaving thru it have seen a new look of Lenin monument, with a hole "in the back" as it was called by Russian media, but if to be honest that's not back, but some body part that is lower than the back.

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If you had flight to Odessa, you could be met in the weirdest airport shuttle bus I've seen. Actually, it's not even a bus but a part of bus

towed by a Russian "ZIL" truck. And also it has an ad at the backside, this ad reads "Ceremonial services. Call agent to your home".

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700" caption=""Russian police girls at Police beauty contest" photo by Goldenshtein Y."][/caption] A collection

of photos that have one thing in commong - Russian policeman (or sometimes police lady) and some human emotion taking place at the same time.

Categories History, Photos, Technology

This is and excerpt from the article of Russian newspaper back from 1958. It tells that: "Young Soviet engineer has assembled a wireless phone that can be connected to the city phone line via 'electro-magnetic' waves. The new model of his phone has a size not more than two cigarette boxes and weights 500g (together with the battery), thanks to this the device can be widely used not only for organizations but also for the personal use. Using this pocket radio phone anyone can call landline number from wherever he is and also he can be called by any landline user." It sounds bit naive these days, but if back in 1958 it could be

really innovative and advanced, especially for a Soviet Russian citizen who was not got used to a gadget abundance. Russian authorities didn't let this happen, the device was not in mass production, and was not available for general public, probably for security and censorship reasons states had in mind, so Russian people had a chance to get the personal mobile phone only after Soviet Union collapsed - just 20 years ago first cell phones and other modification of mobile devices appeared on sale in Russia. On photo there is that "Young Soviet engineer together with his phone".

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