A couple of months ago, you might have read our report on the people from Central Asia living in a half-destroyed
military barrack located in the city of Noginsk-2. Now we want to report on how the story continued.
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian Nature, Technology
Oil and gas producing companies keep occupying new territories forcing out their native population. RN-Purneftegas, one of the branches of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, promised to add new colors into the life of people living in the Purovsky Region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Those areas have been inhabited by
Nenets, Khanty and other peoples for centuries. It is yet black that has been prevailing so far. Peoples who survived revolutions, collectivization and the chaos of the 90s are now on the verge of extinction. Oil and gas production business turned out to be more hazardous than the threat of the past.
Categories Photos, Technology
Isn’t it a great idea to make a modern media
center from an old Soviet radio and record player?
Categories Culture, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Nature
Heavy metal. Sergey Makarenkov takes photographs from the plane. When he first rose into the air, he realized he could not live without seeing a bird’s
eye view of this world. Since 2007, he spent about 400 hours flying on the plane photographing. Let us present some of his aviashots.
Categories Photos, Technology, Video
On March 22nd, a task force of Ministry of Emergency Situations of Primorskiy Territory blasted ice on
the river of Arsenyevka. The ice posed danger to the wooden bridge of a nearby village.
Categories Photos, russian army
Let's see what's going on in 23rd Separate Guards Motorized Infantry
Brigade located in the village of Kryazh, the Samara Region.
Categories Funny, Photos, Russian People, Society
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Categories Culture, Photos, Russian Art, Russian People
Life in the Russian provinces has never been easy. The absence of common utilities even now is not a rarity in villages: water is
gathered from wells, stoves have to be heated up, the cattle watched, in the summer the vegetable patch needs tending…
Categories Photos, Technology
Production of cognac is a very difficult process that can last for decades. Some say "it’s easy to make
cognac; you just need your great grandfather, grandfather and father to devote all their lives to it".
Categories Photos, Russian People, Society
Aesthetic standards of Central Asia differ slightly from those of Russia. There are many beautiful ladies in Kazakhstan so Top-Antropo, a Russian website, tried to pick
best of the best so check out what it got. The girl in the photo above is 23-year old Alfina. She tops the list. She is also Miss Kazakhstan 2007.
