January | 2010 | English Russia

Categories Funny, Other, Photos, Russian People

A few days ago something very very odd happened in downtown of Moscow. There was porno aired on a billboard in the very downtown. Because of it, all the drivers were slowing down a bit to catch at least a small piece

of the show, which is a very rare occasion for night Moscow to tell you the truth. Maybe someone got fired and decided to take French leave and not to bother anyone? Who knows… We can only guess.

Categories Other, Photos, Russian Nature

There are company of Russian photographers that travel around Russia and world taking pictures of everything they see. Recently they decided to split up; one of them went to

Africa to make a picture story and the other one went to one of the mining towns in Siberia. Just compare it, +40C (+95F) in Africa and -40C (-40F) in Siberia.

Categories Photos, Science, Technology

The first initiative to create big radio telescopes in the USSR is dated 1951. They were intended to

observe the sun radiation and radiation of other space sources on centimeter and millimeter waves.

Categories Exclusive, Funny, Photos, Russian People

Some Russian celebrities resemble the foreign ones…

Like young Boris Yeltsin and Ben Affleck, for example.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Other, Photos, russian army, Russian Nature, Russian People

They say that there is no life in the north but only ever-frost. And if you are sitting in your apartments in Moscow, watching TV and feeling bored because of “warm” weather and drabness, why not to travel northward and check by yourself? And so did one company

of best friends, they mounted their Lada and made their way to the very northern Russian city, Naryan-Mar, that is located even farther than one of the most northern and coldest cities of Russia, Arkhangelsk. Let’s see what they’ve got.

Categories Exclusive, Other, Photos

The coal-pit “Podmoskovnaya” is located in the Tula region and now it is the only coal-pit in the whole central region of Russia. The pit has always been considered to be a very promising undertaking, but lately they have been refusing to use coal for

power generation in the central region. The degradation began in the 90s, but formerly only in the Tula region there worked more than 30 coal-pits and there were coal-pits in the Ryazan region, in the Tver region and in the Smolensk region.

Categories Fiction, Photos, Russian People

Sometimes people pay thousands just to have some extraordinary view from their windows. This people of Russian

outskirts district didn't pay much but once they have got some view that can't be compared to any other view.

Categories History, Other, Photos, russian army, Russian People

70 years ago the city of Saint-Petersburg was called Leningrad and when the Second World War was triggered off, Leningrad was forced to withstand the fascist terror and 3 years long enemy’s push. Germans decided to stab second country’s most

populated city which as well had been the country’s weapon broker. But they didn’t choose any aggressive tactics and made a blockade that lasted more than 850 days and led to starvation and constant disorders within the city.

Categories Exclusive, Other, Photos, Technology

Since space exploration rose much higher than the sky last decade, every country set itself a goal to keep it going not to be on the back foot. Most probably, every one of you has already

heard about commonly known Baikonur spaceport, so today we are going to tell you a bit about the other one, less known spaceport as well as about launching of a space vehicle.

Categories Photos

Very beautiful panoramic photographs

taken from the top of Ostankino Tower.

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