June | 2011 | English Russia

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

On 12 June 1991 Boris Yeltsin was elected as the president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first

popularly elected president. However, Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after a series of economic and political crises in Russia in the 1990s.

Categories Photos, Science, Technology

A fresh photo report from the

Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.

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

A very big collection of the black and white photographs of Soviet Moscow made in the 1930s-40s.

Unfortunately, their author is unknown and no captions are provided. Yet the pictures are very interesting.

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Categories Automotive, Funny, Russian People, Society

In terms of the cars tuning Russians' fantasy is

just unlimited. A new idea is a leather car.

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Categories Other, Photos, Russian Nature

Here are pictures from the photosession in the White sea, in the Polar circle with the participation of

sea inhabitants and one very brave girl - a twice world free diving champion, Natalia Avseenko.

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Categories Culture, Exclusive, Other, Photos, Russian People

In the museum under the open sky in Kolomenskoye one can find authentic monuments of sand sculptures. The exhibition devoted to

achievements of the Great Roman Empire and masterpieces of Italian sculpture planned to run from 11 May till 3 October 2011.

Categories Culture, Exclusive, Funny, Other, Photos, Society

When you read about what goes into the consumer's basket, you do not take the quantity you see the way you do when you see it on the photos. The creators of this project used electronic scales to show how it all looks like in minimum quantity. From this it comes out unusual. In the different regions of Russia, the average consumer basket

varies. For example in 2011, the Government of Sverdlovsk region of the I quarter of 2011 set a living wage at a level of US$213 per capita. These include: food - US$82, non-food items - US$32, services - US$84, mandatory payments and fees at US$15. The officiais find this to be sufficient.

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

A selection of photos from one Russian site which gathered a lot

of amazing and high-quality images of World War II time.

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Categories Other, Photos, Russian Nature

Today we"ll revisit the Kronotsky

Nature Reserve and its inhabitants.

Categories Automotive, Business, Economics, Photos, Russian People, Society

What you see is neither a warehouse filled with finished cars nor an auto park belonging to the Emir of Bahrain. It is just a regular parking lot in front of the Sea Station in Saint-Petersburg. Russian agents Smith

have come together before a succeeding important meeting. The car bumper stickers state: "A special gift to an official who could withstand corruption from grateful tax payers of Russia, 2011".

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