Moscow Suicidal Club

2012/10/31



We have shown a lot of their photos at English Russia. They call themselves climbers, but in fact they are potential suicides. Fear of heights does not exist for them, they do not even know any instincts of self-preservation. Joking with death is just their favorite game. For example, climbing old rusty stairs on a 300 meters top without a safety net or running on the edge of a roof of a 40 storey building. They do it not for any sporting interest or records, they simply like to have fun together in extreme conditions.


There are 200 of them in Moscow today. But their number is growing. Most of them are students.


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They use different ways to get on the highest buildings, sometimes they find an unlocked door, sometimes they invent more extreme ways.



The best is considered to be photographed while being in a risky pose, in the balance between life and death. Here the guy is balancing on the height of several hundreds meters for a successful shot.



They follow two main rules: not to be afraid of heights and be sober.



Sometimes such stairs help to climb high constructions.



Climbers joke that there is no sense to be afraid of extreme heights, because if you fall your death will occur instantly and you’ll will nothing.



They do not afraid of possible accidents, people die from vodka and deseases more often.



Most of them do not consider themselves to be dependant on heights, and they are sure they are not adrenaline junkies. But what do you think?


Location: Moscow




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Moscow Defence: Connection of Times

2012/10/31



We cannot travel in time and see what was happenning many years ago, and we luckily do not see what was happening during WWII. But it will never stop to interest us. We still want to touch the history. On these photos two epochs were connected: war time and present days. In the centre of attention is the defence of Moscow. Look how it was and how it is today.


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Today this streets are perfect for shopping.




















The flag reads “The first Belorussian front”.





Let this black and white time remain only in the past.


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Russia Sends Plane with Humanitarian Aid to Storm-Hit Cuba

2012/10/31

A Russian Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft with humanitarian cargo took off from the Moscow Region to hurricane-hit Cuba, the ministry said on Thursday.


“The Emergencies Ministry’s Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft with 32 metric tons of humanitarian cargo took off from the Ramenskoye airport at 23:45 Moscow time on Wednesday [19:45 GMT] to the Santiago de Cuba airport in Cuba, which was hit by hurricane Sandy,” the ministry said in a statement.


The Cuban national headquarters on the civil defense earlier said that at least ten people were killed by Sandy hurricane in the Santiago de Cuba province. The storm also destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of cane and banana plantations and partly or completely ruined over 60,000 houses.


The Russian Emergencies Ministry reported that it intended to send a total of three aircraft with rescuers and humanitarian aid to Cuba.



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Moscow Warns against Assad Ouster

2012/10/31

The removal of President Bashar al-Assad from power will do nothing to end the 19-month civil war in Syria but will only escalate the violence, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.


“It is like daydreaming to speculate on the subject, to the effect that if the [Syrian] government is overthrown everything will fall into place,” Lavrov said after a meeting with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius.


“If this is a priority for somebody, bloodshed will continue, and for quite a while, too.”


“Assad’s fate should be decided by the Syrian people,” he added.


There is no military solution to the Syrian conflict as mercenaries fighting on the side of the Syrian insurgents keep arriving in the country from neighboring states, the minister noted.


Lavrov said on Monday Moscow was disappointed by the failure of a United Nations-brokered ceasefire, but there was little sense in blaming either side.


Western powers have condemned both Russia and China for their repeated refusal to back UN sanctions against Assad's regime, which the United Nations has accused of complicity in the massacre of unarmed civilians. Russia says the UN resolutions contain a pro-rebel bias and that both sides are to blame for the continued fighting, which Syrian rights groups say has claimed up to 35,000 lives.


Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed earlier this year not to allow a repeat of last year's “Libya scenario,” which saw the ouster and murder of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi after a NATO military campaign.



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Russia May Deploy Reconnaissance Planes in Djibouti

2012/10/31

Russia has asked France to allow the deployment of two Ilyushin Il-38 naval reconnaissance planes at a French base in Djibouti to facilitate its anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.


“We have asked France to host two reconnaissance planes at its air base in Djibouti in addition to three French planes deployed there,” Serdyukov said after a meeting of the Russian-French Security Council in Paris.


The Il-38 May is a Soviet-era maritime patrol aircraft still in service with the Russian Navy.


The plane can fly at a maximum speed of 650 km/h. It has a range of 9,500 km and service ceiling of 10,000 meters.


Russian warships have successfully escorted more than 130 commercial vessels from various countries through pirate-infested waters off the Somali coast since 2008, when Russia joined the international anti-piracy mission in the region.


Task forces from the Russian Navy, usually led by Udaloy class destroyers, operate in the area on a rotating basis.


However, the Russian military believes that the deployment of reconnaissance planes in the region would significantly improve the effectiveness of its anti-piracy missions.


France maintains its largest foreign military base in its former colony located at the juncture of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Djibouti base hosts several thousand French military personnel, as well as a number of military aircraft.



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