The Georgian Lift
Elevators in Georgia have one detail that might be very handy in this recession times. They don’t let visitors to use them without… payment.
A person visiting your house have to pay with a coin before he could ever go to your higher floor or… go by stairs and not waste electricity.
Vintage Suburban Electro Buses
In the wild mountains of Georgia (not state but a country, ex USSR region) there are still vintage styled electric buses cruising between the cities through the mountains. Some look like they were doing this under severe fire during some wars that happened in this region for the last twenty years.
Driving Abroad
When Russians get abroad they still can do heroic things, like those Chechen Russians riding this wounded Mercedes abroad.
Or those Georgian Russian riding double Lada.
The End of the Empire
This is an abandoned railway station in Abkhazia, former Russian territory. It stays untouched since the collapse of USSR - the railway connection of Abkhazia and Russia stopped and railway station left out of demand so nature could take over the left-overs of Soviet architecture. In my opinion it reminds somehow the Prince of Persia video game scenes or scenes from the movie of the abandoned civilization after some major disaster.
The Video Sunday
Every week many of new videos appear in Russian part of Internet. Some of them become very popular and circulate among numerous Russian blogs etc. We often put them here too and now decided to collect them all during the week and publish in one separate post let’s say on Sundays. So meet the first video Sunday.
The first video was made by some Russian guys as an answer to the speech of Condoleezza Rice. It was that time when she expressed the position about Russian actions in South Ossetia and Georgia. The makers of this video replaced Condi with Darth Vader and …, well, see it yourself above. The video got very popular in Russia last week.
The next video was widely discussed on Russian Internet last week. It’s an ad from Pioneer electronics company saying “Better use GPS when travel to distant and unknown places”.
And now some Russian music. This video was a true hit last week among bloggers and others. It’s an example of Russian gangsta-rap. The rising star is Slava Mook, was warmly accepted by many, many requests for mp3 and HD versions were posted and Slava promised to continue publishing his new songs. It’s easy to become popular these days.
Well, we stop here today, next Sunday see more Russian hits of the week.
Georgian President’s Tie
As you can see from this short video footage from BBC, Mr. Saakashvili, President of Georgia, is fond of his tie.
Ossetia
There were plenty of professional photos from news agencies from these region lately, now those are amateur shots by Ilia Plehanov, via navoine.ru, from Southern Ossetia or Georgia or name it yourself..
Georiga: Photoshopped Special Forces
Yesterday there was a lot of buzz in mass media about something going on in Georgia. Russian bloggers couldn’t leave this event unnoticed and also made their contribution, though they weren’t attracted by the political side of the question rather than by the strange masks the Georgia policemen wear. So at first they shared those pictures among Russian blogs actively and then first photoshops arrived. These are un-processed images of Georgian special force and their masks:
Georgian Police
Georgia, Southern neighbour of Russia, ex-USSR member.
Meet Georgian policemen.
Some Daily Photos
Sometime before we had assorted daily posts consisting of not connected to each other pics. This post is something like another way to start this “daily” posts which probably would be not so daily but still regular.
Today just a few pics devoted to the cars in Russia and ex-USSR countries.
On the picture above you can see how some Russian people store their cars on the balconies. (more…)
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