The Church Artist
Ivan Shishman is a church artist. Besides he is a father of seven and drinks sometimes.
This time he has got an order from Crimean church to make an artwork on the inside surface of its domes.
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Social Network Art
For several years Russia, as well as other former soviet republics, together with the rest of the Internet world suffers from expansion of the social network services. For the moment the most popular of them here is Vkontakte (“in contact”). It is often considered (without any official confirmation) that its design, style and architecture were “stolen” from Facebook.
Abandoned Swine City
With all that hype of swine flu going around these days there are big chances that sooner or later more pig farms would look like this abandoned Swine City Grande from USSR where they had thousands of thousands of piglets belonging to the glorious state and then all was left unused.
The hysteria itself hasn’t reached its peak as it was with mad cow disease one when they burned down millions of cow bodies etc, but if they start doing such things someday they would get more such landscapes for sure.
Tricky Russian Sandwiches
There is one sacred rule in cooking: to make a delicious and healthy dish you need to cook it with good spirits on. And one more thing that is never too many. This is creativity and if you add several spoons of that to your recipe it won’t do any harm at all.
Monsters of the Epoch – Forced Invention
For intra-factory needs it’s not always convenient and profitable to use ordinary equipment (tractors, pushers, loaders etc.) due to many vital reasons – either transportation of heavy details and aggregates from shop to shop or banal tightness of money for specialized machinery), besides, as a rule, there are a lot of unutilized materials such as spare parts or simply written-off equipment that hasn’t been cut to metal junk yet. Necessity is the mother of invention and it’s not a secret – Russians are fertile with brilliant ideas – that’s how so-called “stumps”, “crocodiles”, “bigheads” etc. are born into this world with the only purpose – to make human life more convenient and people’s labour easier.
Posh Palace in the Moscow Region
A posh palace is being built on the bank of Istrin water reservoir in the Moscow region. It’s a mansion looking like a huge 18th century palace, which is already informally named “Istrin mansion”. Its appearance, quick development and approximate cost were recently debated in Russian blogs. But still having some guesses about who could own such a luxury, no one has an official confirmation on who the lucky man really is.
Fishing All the Secrets Out
Who is this weird-looking man on the picture? Why he has such a funny beard and glasses? What is he doing in this article, on the very main page and how does it connected with Russia?
And more importantly, what’s wrong with this vest of his and why the hell he needs so many pockets on it? Fishing all the secrets out.
Distilled Water Machine
Municipal journalists were preparing a report about a local constructor. He showed some of his works and one of them was the machine for water purification. Let’s watch!
Old Russian Humor in Ogonek
“Retro” is in fashion today, so we will look through the old issues and the new ones to see what was funny many years ago and pretty recently. It turned out that that the jokes are like dresses- the older they are the less attractive they become, and we laugh now at something what was serious and important then.
No Tickets, Please!
A funny video of people in the morning catching some train to the city in Moscow.
The ones going down there are the ones who don’t want to pass ticket checking gate.
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