Russian Army Drill in Winter 2016

Meanwhile there is big drill going on at Russian Mulino range, the biggest tank range in Europe. Snow, cold weather no matter what drill is going on. It's name is "Suvorov's Onslaught". General Suvorov was a Russian army man who who never lost a battle, being undefeated in over 60 large battles. Suvorov fought severely against Turkey...

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Russian Army Drill in Winter 2016

Meanwhile there is big drill going on at Russian Mulino range, the biggest tank range in Europe. Snow, cold weather no matter what drill is going on. It's name is "Suvorov's Onslaught". General Suvorov was a Russian army man who who never lost a battle, being undefeated in over 60 large battles. Suvorov fought severely against Turkey...

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The Upside of a Down Ruble

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Silicon Valley Still Beats Skolkovo for Russia's Richest Tycoons

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The Litvinenko Affair: An Anglo-Russian Exercise in Futility

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Russia Improves Position in International Corruption Rating

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Protests By Unhappy Mortgage Holders Rock Moscow Banks

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Russia in 1851 as Seen By Americans

So this is a picture book published in New York in 1854 telling the story of an American traveller going to Russia and what he saw there. To make it more gloomy he called his book "A Knout and the Russians". Knout is a whip, a thing which used to raise the horses etc and also used to punish people in Russia, in public. Interesting pictures...

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Russia in 1851 as Seen By Americans

So this is a picture book published in New York in 1854 telling the story of an American traveller going to Russia and what he saw there. To make it more gloomy he called his book "A Knout and the Russians". Knout is a whip, a thing which used to raise the horses etc and also used to punish people in Russia, in public. Interesting pictures...

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Schooling in Moscow: A Mixed Bag

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The Newest And Probably the Best Aircraft Plant of Russia

"Aviastar-SP" is the largest aircraft maker in Russia. Based in Ulyanovsk, it produces heavy transport crafts Il-76MD-90A and passenger crafts Tu-204. It used to make the biggest cargo planes An-124 "Ruslan" as well. Today it only provides their maintenance. Currently "Aviastar-SP" participates in production of a new long-haul aircraft...

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The Newest And Probably the Best Aircraft Plant of Russia

"Aviastar-SP" is the largest aircraft maker in Russia. Based in Ulyanovsk, it produces heavy transport crafts Il-76MD-90A and passenger crafts Tu-204. It used to make the biggest cargo planes An-124 "Ruslan" as well. Today it only provides their maintenance. Currently "Aviastar-SP" participates in production of a new long-haul aircraft...

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Free and Happy Soviet People

According to the title this selection of the photos should show you free and happy Soviet people. They called it so, because it was first published somewhere in the middle 1960s in Russia, and a lot of people really were happy after their country was rebuilt after a devastating war and also pretty free, at least financially not having any...

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Free and Happy Soviet People

According to the title this selection of the photos should show you free and happy Soviet people. They called it so, because it was first published somewhere in the middle 1960s in Russia, and a lot of people really were happy after their country was rebuilt after a devastating war and also pretty free, at least financially not having any...

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Russian Sakhalin Island 100 Years Ago

This is how people has lived on Sakhalin Island around 100 years ago in Russia. Actually, Sakhalin is the biggest populated island in Russia, located in Russian Pacific. Photos are very atmospheric and there are plenty of them. Enjoy! Advertisement This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're...

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Russian Sakhalin Island 100 Years Ago

This is how people has lived on Sakhalin Island around 100 years ago in Russia. Actually, Sakhalin is the biggest populated island in Russia, located in Russian Pacific. Photos are very atmospheric and there are plenty of them. Enjoy! Advertisement This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're...

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Selection of Awesome Russian Jets from 2015

Russian photographer and a blogger, Mike S., decided to post his best shots of the previous year and it came out to be pretty brilliant collection. Please enjoy it for your viewing pleasure with captions of what it is. For example a jet overhead is a SU-34 on MAKS-2015 airshow in Russia. See more inside: Advertisement This entry passed...

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Selection of Awesome Russian Jets from 2015

Russian photographer and a blogger, Mike S., decided to post his best shots of the previous year and it came out to be pretty brilliant collection. Please enjoy it for your viewing pleasure with captions of what it is. For example a jet overhead is a SU-34 on MAKS-2015 airshow in Russia. See more inside: Advertisement This entry passed...

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Soviet Kids

Just over thirty  nostalgic black and white photos of Soviet kids just, you know, being kids. Also for those of you who expecting more often updates just a friendly reminder we also have an official English Russia twitter account.  Subscribe, it updates at least once a day with some funny or historical or just interesting...

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Soviet Kids

Just over thirty  nostalgic black and white photos of Soviet kids just, you know, being kids. Also for those of you who expecting more often updates just a friendly reminder we also have an official English Russia twitter account.  Subscribe, it updates at least once a day with some funny or historical or just interesting...

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Ruble Crashes To Historic Lows As Oil Prices Plunge

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Kremlin Reacts to Kadyrov's Attacks on 'Jackals' Opposed to Putin

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Agents of Change: Promoting Tolerance and Acceptance in Russia

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Russian Legal Activists Offer Advice for 'When They Come for You'

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Russian Cosmonauts Having New Year Dinner [video]

[embedded content] Russian space agency Roskosmos is publishing sometimes pretty neat reality-style videos directly from orbit telling about Russian cosmonauts casual moments on the orbit. Here is one of such videos for your viewing pleasure showing Russian space explorers munching on New Year dinner treats. They talk Russian but still pretty worth checking it out! Did you like it? Advertisement This entry passed through...

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Russian Cosmonauts Having New Year Dinner [video]

[embedded content] Russian space agency Roskosmos is publishing sometimes pretty neat reality-style videos directly from orbit telling about Russian cosmonauts casual moments on the orbit. Here is one of such videos for your viewing pleasure showing Russian space explorers munching on New Year dinner treats. They talk Russian but still pretty worth checking it out! Did you like it? Advertisement This entry passed through...

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Obama Calls Putin to Discuss Global Crises

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Russian city Petrozavodsk under heavy snow falls

Russian city Petrozavodsk was hit by a cyclone Daniella today which resulted in very heavy snowfalls. In a matter of just few hours city was drowning in snow. Sometimes the snow piles were as high as almost 1.5 meter tall. Petrozavodsk is a 300,000 city, capital of Karelia region bordering Finland and Norway. Not a small city, so the traffic...

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Russian city Petrozavodsk under heavy snow falls

Russian city Petrozavodsk was hit by a cyclone Daniella today which resulted in very heavy snowfalls. In a matter of just few hours city was drowning in snow. Sometimes the snow piles were as high as almost 1.5 meter tall. Petrozavodsk is a 300,000 city, capital of Karelia region bordering Finland and Norway. Not a small city, so the traffic...

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Russian VITYAZI Air Jet Aerobatics Squad at Training

Russian "VITYAZI" group or The Russian Knights is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. It is considered to be most elite squad of the aerobatic pilots in Russia. Most of the major state events include their demo flights. Like, for example if some city turns out to have 300 years old anniversary then this squad...

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Russian VITYAZI Air Jet Aerobatics Squad at Training

Russian "VITYAZI" group or The Russian Knights is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. It is considered to be most elite squad of the aerobatic pilots in Russia. Most of the major state events include their demo flights. Like, for example if some city turns out to have 300 years old anniversary then this squad...

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China's Economic Turmoil Ruins Russia's New Year

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Russian Acoustic Guitar Makers from Bobrovo Russia

It might be a surprising fact for you but in Russia there are still a few factories producing guitars. During Soviet times Russian people had to buy mostly all products locally made, so guitar manufacturers were blooming. Then, Russia opened its markets for foreign merchandise and many ex Soviet factories went bankrupt. Many think that...

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Russian Acoustic Guitar Makers from Bobrovo Russia

It might be a surprising fact for you but in Russia there are still a few factories producing guitars. During Soviet times Russian people had to buy mostly all products locally made, so guitar manufacturers were blooming. Then, Russia opened its markets for foreign merchandise and many ex Soviet factories went bankrupt. Many think that...

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Crazier That You May Have Imagined: Offroad Smart Fortwo Car

Today you are going to see something you probably never saw you would. The idea for such project for sure could appear for someone from ex-Soviet country - where the roads are still often cursed by drivers but the luxury and fuel economy trend is already an issue. So how about combining all this and getting a Smart car, Smart Fortwo to...

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Crazier That You May Have Imagined: Offroad Smart Fortwo Car

Today you are going to see something you probably never saw you would. The idea for such project for sure could appear for someone from ex-Soviet country - where the roads are still often cursed by drivers but the luxury and fuel economy trend is already an issue. So how about combining all this and getting a Smart car, Smart Fortwo to...

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Russian Kayaking in -27 Outside

Russian blogger I.Podgorny from Petrozavodsk, Karelia says that last morning he was awaken by his friend saying "you gotta visit me right now. It's -27 outside and the river is still possible to kayak. Let's do this". So the blogger took his camera and went on the sudden adventure. So thanks to him we can see the awesome nature and almost...

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Russian Kayaking in -27 Outside

Russian blogger I.Podgorny from Petrozavodsk, Karelia says that last morning he was awaken by his friend saying "you gotta visit me right now. It's -27 outside and the river is still possible to kayak. Let's do this". So the blogger took his camera and went on the sudden adventure. So thanks to him we can see the awesome nature and almost...

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Album of Russian Top Beauties 1904

Here we have the edition called "Album of Russian Top Beauties". Famous actresses, media personalities and wives of rich men - all gathered togethered. The only catch here it was published in 1904, so your perception of beauty and attractiveness might changed greatly for this 112 years passed. Want to test yourself if you still find those...

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Album of Russian Top Beauties 1904

Here we have the edition called "Album of Russian Top Beauties". Famous actresses, media personalities and wives of rich men - all gathered togethered. The only catch here it was published in 1904, so your perception of beauty and attractiveness might changed greatly for this 112 years passed. Want to test yourself if you still find those...

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Dark Face of Socialism by Vlad Sokolaev

Soviet photographer Sokolaev has called his series of photos something that can be translated as "Unattractive and hidden side of socialism". He was taking those photos in period of twenty years from 1970s to late 1980s. Of course Soviet powers would not tolerate such view on their state. However the series came out to be really dark and...

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Dark Face of Socialism by Vlad Sokolaev

Soviet photographer Sokolaev has called his series of photos something that can be translated as "Unattractive and hidden side of socialism". He was taking those photos in period of twenty years from 1970s to late 1980s. Of course Soviet powers would not tolerate such view on their state. However the series came out to be really dark and...

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The Moscow Times Top Stories

http://ift.tt/wAP9qB The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics and culture in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS). en Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:32:02 +0300 http://ift.tt/1O0Qxis 330 291 Crimea Government Moves Swiftly to Join Russia http://ift.tt/1om5mkr http://ift.tt/1om5mkr By Ivan Nechepurenko <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> http://ift.tt/1om5mkr Residents...

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Russian Athletics: Kicked Out for Being a Bad Sport

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A Visit to the Forensic science center of Saint Petersburg

This material is 100% exclusive! Something like this does not normally show up in the Internet. A group of bloggers paid a visit to a forensic science center of a police department in Saint Petersburg. This institution never cooperates with civilians and mass media, that is why such invitation is unique both for the center and bloggers. Forensics...

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A Visit to the Forensic science center of Saint Petersburg

This material is 100% exclusive! Something like this does not normally show up in the Internet. A group of bloggers paid a visit to a forensic science center of a police department in Saint Petersburg. This institution never cooperates with civilians and mass media, that is why such invitation is unique both for the center and bloggers. Forensics...

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Air Defense Museum Stationed on the Street Next to Regular Houses

There is a small city called Balashikha near Moscow, and it has a unique air defense artillery museum that is mostly situated outdoors and is surrounded by regular houses that people live in - you can see one in the background here. So whenever people leave their apartments each day to go run their regular errands, they see...

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Man from Omsk builds a Lada Tank

A car enthusiast from Samara, Russia, has built a tracked Lada from leftover car parts and scrap metal. He was inspired by a video he saw on TV about how the tracked vehicles easily go wherever they want, so he decided to build one for himself. He even named it similarly to how tanks are named in Russia. He called it...

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Russian Empire Photos of the Late 19th Century

A nice collection of late 19th century photos of the Russian Empire. It looks like a totally different world from how modern Russia looks now. At that time, Russia included such places as Helsinki and the whole of Finland, Warsaw and Poland. Much more area than now. Each picture has a caption but the captions are in French - though...

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Moving Backward: Russia's Moral Decay (Op-Ed)

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Air Defense Museum Stationed on the Street Next to Regular Houses

This small city Balashikha near Moscow, and it has a unique air defense artillery museum that is mainly stationed outdoors and surrounded by regular people houses - you can see here one on the background. So people whenever they leave their apartments every day to go run their regular errands they see the missiles everywhere. And it's all...

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Man from Omsk builds a Lada Tank

A car enthusiast from Samara, Russia, has built a tracked Lada from leftover car parts and scrap metal. He was inspired by a video he saw on TV about how the tracked vehicles easily go wherever they want, so he decided to build one for himself. He even named it similarly to how tanks are named in Russia. He called it...

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Russian Empire Photos of the Late 19th Century

A nice collection of late 19th century photos of the Russian Empire. It looks like a totally different world from how modern Russia looks now. At that time, Russia included such places as Helsinki and the whole of Finland, Warsaw and Poland. Much more area than now. Each picture has a caption but the captions are in French - though...

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The Moscow Times Top Stories

http://ift.tt/wAP9qB The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics and culture in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS). en Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:41:08 +0300 http://ift.tt/1O0Qxis 330 291 Crimea Government Moves Swiftly to Join Russia http://ift.tt/1om5mkr http://ift.tt/1om5mkr By Ivan Nechepurenko <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> http://ift.tt/1om5mkr Residents...

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