Performance with lions in Lviv Circus, Ukraine, was one of the most spectacular and popular.
Usually everything was smooth but once the lions went out of control and started to attack...
Categories Culture, Funny, Photos, Russian Nature, Russian People, Society
This folk holiday looks rather strange even to many Russians. And we cannot say for sure what is
happening on these photos ourselves. But these people seem to have fun being dressed like this.
Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society
In the selection of craziness today: weird carpet photos, high snow of Moscow, girls who choose bad background
for taking pictures, golden cars, funny situations at gas stations, wrong games with children and much more.
Categories Funny, Russian People, Society, Video
When your job is not so cool and easy you just have to find ways to have fun to be able to keep working
there. This is how scavengers from Vladikavkaz entertain themselves in winter during their working time.
Categories Photos, Russian People, Society, Sports
Look at the photographs of the pre-war USSR women in sport and at beaches. Aren't they pretty mush different from contemporary females? Yes, these women are neither some
stars of the past nor participants of beauty contests, but it's quite evident that beauty standards have considerably changed since then. Do you want them back?
Categories Russian People, Society, Sports, Video
The MMA Championship held in Krasnodar, Russia, turned into a mass fight of sportsmen and their fans against the guys from Dagestan who
ignited the fight by insulting the judges and sportsmen. The beaten Dagestani were taken out of the city under cover of police.
While some people are mastering nanotechnologies and launching satellites, others live an old life or a bit worse. Only about 100 people remained in the village of Novoyemakovka in the Omsk region. They have no Internet or mobile connection, and guest
workers do not stay there for long. But they have a farm where villagers work. But we want to tell about one Russian woman, Lubov Andreevna Lavrentyeva, the pride of the whole region, repeated winner of various livestock competitions.
Categories Automotive, Funny, Russian People, Video
A boy with a company of his friends took daddy's Infinity to have a risky funny ride. Trying this near the
house was not enough for them and they drove further, to the city streets. Who knows, how it could end.
...But they died 200 years ago. So these photographs are really unique. Maxim P. Dmitriev was a Russian photographer of the XIX-XXth centuries, founder of the photojournalismt genre, member of the Russian Photographic Society. He was
a talented person who travelled to all cities near the big Volga river, he took pictures of Volga landscapes, cities, everyday scenes and people. His works were awarded in Paris, Amsterdam, Chicago and New York.
Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian People, Science, Society, Sports, Technology
So popular National Geographic used to write much about Russia / Soviet Union as well. Here
is a nice selection of Soviet images from National Geographic magazines dated 1976-78.
