Guy sets on fire a Hummer car of someone else, right in the middle of the day with
people walking around. Escaped unnoticed. Almost.
Categories Funny, History, Photos, Russian Nature
Kurilsk lake is famous not only with its wonderful landscapes and surrounding volcanoes, but also with the demographic situation of bears which is very good as there are plenty of the animals here. This is where one can get a clear
understanding that a bear is not a fluffy toy but a dangerous predator and doesn't kill people only because there is an abundance of tested and safe food around. As soon as the food is over, no person can be saved.
Categories Culture, Economics, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People, Science, Technology
Bobruisk is a city in Belarus. The place had been inhabited by people since the fifth-sixth centuries. The city was first mentioned in 1387 as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1792 it became part of the Russian
Empire and was included into the borders of Belarus in 1795. Today it is actually the largest city in the country. The photos made in the Soviet epoch show what the life in the city at those times was like.
Categories History, Photos, Russian Nature, Society
Lake Baikal is a wonderful place that looks mighty both in winter and in summer. It is the oldest lake in the world that was there 25
million years ago and is 744,4 m deep. No other deeper lake can be found in the world. Let us visit the place and enjoy its beauty.
Categories Automotive, Funny, Video
Cars whose actions cannot be predicted on a road, crane falling on the construction site, drivers who always hurry up and do not like being behind,
streets of Kazan where in a rainy season one can sail by boat, people who are trying to cross a newly repaired road - in the video selection today.
Categories Economics, Photos, russian army, Russian People, Technology
The Russian "Rus" aerobatics team flying by L-39 jet planes which is one of the best in the world and is one of top-ten world aerobatics teams. The scenario of their shows is always the same: the planes come from nowhere, perform
graceful and complex tricks and disappear suddenly leaving lost in admiration spectators alone. But what work precedes the performance and what happens behind the curtain? We'll try to answer the question today.
Categories Culture, Photos, Society, Technology
A cool idea was realized by the Russians and presented at the Venice Biennale, the thirteenth International Architecture Exhibition. Specially for the event an original dome was built, the walls inside of it are all
covered with periodically glowing QR-codes (quick response codes enciphering some visual information). All visitors are given tablet PCs that help to decipher the codes and see the images hidden this way.
Categories Photos, Russian Nature
Why stay in a large steam-room as Moscow in summer? A trip to the Kola peninsula may chill you out. We gonna join the
guys who did exactly this way - went along the Kola peninsula for new impressions, for fish and fresh wind.
Wealthy men in old Russia (as old as the beginning of the last century) liked to go to a bathhouse in a nice men's company (nothing gay or straight about this). But those bathhouses were pretty
much different from those Russia has today. One of those luxury bathhouses, one of brothers Yegorovs, in the beginning of the twentieth century is here on the photos today
Categories Automotive, Law, Photos, russian army
Moscow special forces at work: how they aim, what weapons and cars they use, what they wear, how they disguise, what they do to remain unnoticed.
Tough guys in combat situations and at the rare moments caught on the photos. See how order is brought back when something goes wrong...
