April | 2012 | English Russia

Categories Culture, Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society

The first ever caviar eating championship was held in Moscow in April, 20th. Everyone who wished to take part in it came to a restaurnat "the Apartment". 12 persons were chosen to eat as much caviar as they could for three minutes. They didn't have to stop till they ate half a litre of the expensive food. Alexander Valov, 49, was

announced the winner of the competition - he ate half a litre of caviar for 1 minute 26 seconds and got 10 thousand rubles (330 USD) and ... caviar as a prize. Others took the remaining caviar home as a consolation prize. That evening the participants ate caviar for 2 million rubles! (66 600 USD).

Categories Culture, History, Other, Photos

When a building is under renovation it's quite easy to enter it. So the author of

the photos got onto the roof of "Moskva" hotel to take these pictures.

Categories Culture, Photos, Russian People, Science, Society, Technology

It's not so hard to enter a vocational technical school today. No entrance exams, it's enough to present documents and choose a profession you like. They get senior secondary education and thus teenagers who can't enter higher education institutions can get skills of a profession they like, find a job and have decent earnings. As part of modernization of educational system for the years 2011-2015 they

plan to open a polytechnic secondary school in Tatarsk, the Novosibirsk region. It will have to level up professional education in the region. But in Kozino village, the Ust-Tarksky district, where former vocational school #75 is located, they do not like the idea. They are afraid that students will go to Tatarsk to study and the vocational school will close soon.

Categories Business, Economics, Exclusive, Photos, russian army, Technology

Let us see how lives and what air breathes the legendary producer of Kalashnikov guns! While they write about inevitable death of

the plant we can see that "Izmash" is alive indeed! It's been working for two centuries, and will be working even longer!

Categories Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society

High water has come to Mordovia.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated...

Categories Business, Economics, Exclusive, History, Photos, russian army, Science, Technology

"Arsenyev Aviation company "Progress" named after Sazykin" is one of the largest enterprises of aerospace industry in Russia. The main pride of the company is combat

helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator" developed by the Kamov helicopter plant and produced for the Ministry of Defence. Let's see how these legendary vehicles are made.