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Categories Exclusive, Funny, History, Photos, russian army, Technology

AK-47 is probably one of the most well-known Russian weaponry piece. They say it became so popular worldwide because of it's high durability (it can go for years without any kind of cleaning or special maintenance) and extreme simplicity - it has only eight moving parts and can be stripped down in one minute. In some countries of

Africa it can be bought as cheap as $12 for one piece and no any license is needed, so even children armed with the guns. Maybe that's why some of the countries of this continent have the AK-47 depiction on their coats of arms, like Mozambique on pictures above has it both on its flag and coats of arms.

Categories Culture, History, Other, Photos, Russian People, Society

First communal apartments, where several families live together, appeared in Russia back in the 18th century, when the landlords divided their apartments into several parts and rented them out. Such apartments had five or six rooms and a kitchen,

where all tenants cooked their food. To solve the housing problems after the October revolution the authorities allowed requisitioning of rich people’s living space for new tenants, mainly communists, soldiers and security officers.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos, Society, Video

It is common that after massive raining capital of Latvia - Riga - is

quite literally under water. Middle of June wasn't exception.

Categories Culture, Other, Russian Art, Russian People

A super-master of miniatures Nikolay Aldunin is going to have a museum of his works in Moscow. He was born in Tula, but after becoming popular all over the country and abroad for his fabulous works, he moved to the capital and continued creating his tiny things there. He managed to

shoe a flea, carved portraits of Russian authors on rice grains and constructed a microscopic miniature of the Eiffel Tower, and lots of other awesome things, which seem to be just impossible to make without special hi-tech equipment. But he can do that!

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People

In some parts of Russia there is a tradition to take your bride to the sauna before wedding. Some think that's being done on some filthy purpose, but elders explain this in different way: "When you go with your chosen one to the banya (Russian word for sauna), you can see the

real person, without all the cloths and all the cosmetics that can decieve you greatly and affect your choice." Seeing those photos of Russian brides before the visit to the stylist and after prove that this tradition might be really wise to follow.

Categories Culture, Exclusive, Funny, History, Other, Photos, Russian People

In the USSR carpets became popular in the 50-ies with the ear of “khruschevkas” (of low-cost panelled or brick three to five-storied

apartment buildings), they we usually hung on walls or put on the floor to make rooms warmer and quieter as the walls were usually thin.

Categories Funny, Photos, Society

The guy who made this photos lives in some city in Sakhalin region of Russia, the one that is near Japan. He didn't expect his photos would get popular when he just wandered across his town and made them, primarily to

show to his friends. Later the link was passed from person to person and it's still not very clear what caused them to achieve so much fame, maybe you can get a clue by seeing this photo series?

Categories Funny, Russian People, Video

What we see here is a video popular in Russia lately of what

assumed to be a helicopter doing some tricky stuff...

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Society

One Russian book shopping network has chosen this lovely bear as a heroe meeting kids in children's departments of their stores. Probably it

could be OK for an average family but inquiring minds of bloggers has found the similarities with a well known Internet figure.

Categories Culture, History, Other, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People

Fashion historian Alexander Vasyliev believes that the model profession was invented by Russian emigrants, who were the first who said, “We’ll do it all the time and for money!” In Russia the word combination “a fashion model” became the synonym for “the standard

of beauty” ages and ages ago, and it has always been an admiration for all foreigners. Let’s take a look at the list of Russian fashion models abroad, modern ones and those who became fashion stars back in the early 20-ies of the 20-th century.

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