The Russian Orthodox Church has the close connection with the Russian army. They believe
each other, and they suppose only together they present real hope for the country.
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How does young guys life change when they become Russian soldiers? They surely won't tell you all the story for some photo report.
However we have a chance to see how an ordinary Russian military unit, where ordinary soldiers serve, looks like. Welcome inside.
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Russian bloggers were invited to a Special Purpose Police Unit base in
Yekaterinburg where they got a chance to see this extreme profession from the
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The Bryansk region of Russia is full of former air defence objects. Let's
explore these concrete boxes, as they may seem such at first sight.
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February 23 is the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia. A Moscow batallion
is preparing to traditionally fire a salute to celebrate the holiday.
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Stalin Line is a former line of fortifications on the border of the Soviet Union occupying the territory of modern
Byelorussia. Nowadays its great part is an open-air museum of military machines and facilities once left there.
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Dog training center "Krasnaya zvezda" ("Red star") is the central school of military dog breeding and is the only special unit in the Russian Army of such kind. It was
founded in 1924 to conduct experiments on the dog usage during wartime. The experience of the "Red star" was successfully applied during the Second World War.
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Some parts of the Astrakhan region look like a moldy honey cake with rare green blotches of trees, which is restrung by celebratory blue ribbons of shallow streams. There is very little growth, the ground is dry and the trees are scraggy. The situation changes drastically as you approach the Caspian Sea, where the Volga river is divided into numerous arms,
and it starts looking like a cable barbarian attacked and unraveled with the plug torn off: everything is green, the trees get higher, though there are fewer of them, little plots of land, that is there, is covered with green reed twice the human height. Half of the Russian Red Book (endangered species list) inhabits this area.
