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Categories Economics, Photos, Society, Technology

It's a landfill in Primorye - on the Pacific coast of Russia. They say in winter they receive 400 tons of trash daily. The stuff is being sorted by

people and then goes either to recycling facilites or to be dumped directly on the landfill field. How much of the trash is recycled?

Categories History, Russian People, Science, Technology, Video

Shared by one of our readers, Steve, this is a video from the era when Soviet documentaries were still being translated into foreign languages. This particular one tells a story of an atomic icebreaker that could sustain people deep into the polar ice

fields without any need of external sources of heat or fuel, which was really groundbreaking technology at the time and is still pretty cool even now. There is one more documentary on atomic power in Soviet Russia as a bonus inside:

Categories Photos, Technology

We are in Obninsk, Russia, to see how they test aircraft and locomotive

glazing there for resistance to bird strikes and other impacts.

Categories Culture, Photos

An enthusiastic team of graffiti masters beautified grey houses in Sevastopol avenue in

Moscow, having depicted awesome sailing ships. Any dull street may become bright!

Categories Photos, Technology

During the arms race many interesting and unusual vehicles were created. To most of us they look rather

strange, however some of them may even astonish specialists. The rocket launcher 9P116 is just one of these.

Categories Photos, Society

Most of the pictures we may see from the Maidan conflict in Kiev, Ukraine, are taken from the side of the opposition. Now, when it

already looks like a real war and becomes hotter than ever, we have a chance to look at the situation from the side of police.

Categories Photos, Technology

You have surely seen structures like this but do you know what they are used for? Cooling towers are used for cooling a large amount of water by directed air flow. Today it is one of the most efficient facilities for water cooling in circulation supply systems of industrial

companies. High towers create that very air draft required for efficient cooling of circulating water. Extraction towers serve to create a natural draft due to a thermal difference of the air supplied to the cooling tower and heated air coming out of it.

Categories Exclusive, Funny, Russian Food, Russian People, Society

Do you want a Snickers bar? No thanks, I have "Parkour", it has nuts and everything. Mars? No, thanks, we have "Maneur". It even has a soccer ball on its wrapper, checkmate

marsophiles. Milky Way? Not at all. I've got "Musicle". It has some notes for stars. Nuts? No way!! I have "Fort"! It has nuts! Nuts! There are some more inside.

Categories Funny, Russian People, Video

Just a new model of Russian

tractors. Pretty cool looking, eh?

Categories Automotive, Photos, Technology

We are at the most secret military unit located in Tver, Russia. It is exactly where multiple launch rocket systems and support vehicles are based. Strangers are not allowed here, in this place

of high secrecy. Only some days before the Defender's day a group of journalists could visit this place and take pictures of the beauty, power and strength of the Russian army.

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