The Frozen-Explosion Power Plant

We were tracking closely the story of the Russian power plant exploded and then was examined by experts, and tried to be repaired. Then some estimates appeared that it may take up to ten years to get it back in full scale, and some doubted if it was worth at all.
And while these talks are going on, here is how it looks now after major frosts going on this winter it looks really interesting, like some kind of movie sets for you name it movie.
History of Kremlin Stars

Stars appeared on Kremlin tower not long time ago. There were golden symbols of tzarism, double eagles, in the center of the country until 1935.
From 1600’s four Kremlin towers(Troitskaya, Spasskaya, Borovitskaya, Nikolskaya) were decorated with Russian state organization symbols – enormous golden double eagles.
Right after Revolution a question about replacement double eagles on red stars for Kremlin towers arose. But such replacement would cost a lot that’s why it wasn’t done for the first years of the Soviet time.
A Line a-la in Post Soviet Reconstruction Times

This big line is not for kielbasa but for tax inspectorate № 46 in Moscow. The term of enterprise rewrite is finishing at the end of 2009 and people started to worry about that at the last minute.
Hell № 46.
For the many millions of people in Moscow somebody really mean decided to direct all these people to one place- in this city the registration of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and farms is made only in Inter-district inspection of Federal tax service № 46. (more…)
Send Flowers to Russia

In Russia, flower delivery to the beloved ones can sometimes be accomplished in some intriguing way.
When you ready to waste more on your flowers and be sure they would be there in such manner your girl would never forget you can call those guys.
What’s so unique with that? Inside there is the answer what they do.
Moscow Refinery

Some piece of industrial hardware can look attractive for photographers especially at night.
Russian blogger Ilya has paid a visit to a refiner near Moscow to make some cool shots of it.
The Balancing Eggs and Unbalanced Fans
Some short stories and curiousities that are too short for a separate post. First photo is a small size version of the epic drawing made by some Russian guy depicting truely epic fight between Hollywood heroes against Russian cartoon and cinema characters. By the click you can zoom it on and see in detail who is winning.
The Mobile Computer

When the recession reaches it’s most coarse drastic form and the consumption would aim for zero point values, then all the Asian production would stop causing so much chaos there. That means for us that no cheap consumer electronics would be made.
Still some middle-class proffesionals would need a mobile computer to be carried with them on their job tasks, so anyone would be able to make a mobile computer like this.
It’s durable, lasting doesn’t attract much attention and still it’s a mobile computer!
Some people in Russia has already started making some.
Russian Investment Cartoons
Russian investors like many other investors around the world has experienced huge losses. Some now instead of investing they now make cartoons about fellow traders.
What if…

Some Russian bloggers tried to imagine how the popular international brands and products could look if Russians took over the world someday…
How to Earn One Million, The Book

Lately, in some Russian bookstores this book is a true bestseller. Mostly people buy it as a gift. And here is why.
First of all, it’s title is “How to earn a million?”, well this kind of titles are always very intriguing, but usually contain kind of not so worthy stuff. But believe me, not in this case.

Then there goes a contents. It says:
“1. How to earn a million? page. 1″
“2. What to do if you have not succeeded in the beginning? page. 17″
“3. What to do if you are not sure in success? page. 51″
“4. What to do if you have already earned but then spent all the money? page. 87″
But what’s in the text? Let’s see…
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