Murmansk Skies are Cool…

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Murmansk is a city in the northwestern part of Russia, it serves as the important base for the Russian Navy. Yesterday the citizens of Murmansk, saw this incredible rainbow effect in the skies, they claim they’ve never seen anything like this before - well, neither have we…

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A river under Moscow part 2…

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We already posted about the river that runs under Moscow here, now here are more pics by Alexander Klochkov…
 
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Picture of the Day 01/31/2008

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funny gallery 61

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USSR Without Glamor…

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We already made a post about the Soviet Union in the late 80’s here, as well as the Westerner’s look at Soviet Union here, and now here is another gallery that depicts that era as well as people who lived through it…

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Abandoned AZLK Factory in Russia…

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Russian car factory AZLK, abbreviation literally meaning “Lenin Communist Youth League Automobile Factory” was the maker of the Moskvich brand. The factory which was founded in 1930, stayed around for decades until it filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and shut down all of its production. Today the factory remains idle and abandoned. Here are pictures of the factory by the abandoned property expert Alexander Klochkov, as well as the picture of the factory in its better days…

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New Uniform for the Russian Army…

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It’s been a while since Russian Army’s uniforms were updated, well they finally did it. They showed new uniforms to the president yesterday and interestingly enough the guy in charge was a famous Russian designer Valentin Udashkin. New uniforms definitely look better, and the fact that they hired models to display them, also helps…
 
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Millionaire fair in Moscow…

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These days some people in Russia have a lot  of cash to spend, that’s why this ”Milionaire fair” was held in Moscow in order to target the wealthy…
      
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Picture of the Day 01/30/2008

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When KRAZ misses parking…

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When a heavy KRAZ-255 truck that you see below “parks” itself into a tiny car, the end result isn’t pretty…
  

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Russian Army Changes People…

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On the left you see a guy right before he was recruited into the Russian army, and on the right you see the same guy five months after he joined.
1. Shouldn’t it be the other way around???
2. Lets hope his girlfriend doesn’t see this…

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Putin make over…

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It is somewhat popular to photoshop Russian president Vladimir Putin. Here are few pictures that we came across, submit more if you have them…
  
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anecdotes part 9

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Вирусы, вирусы… уборщица вот сила! Один удар шваброй по серверу и полконторы без работы уже час.
    
У нас новая секретарша, 19-летняя блондинка. Как-то сидит, пыхтит:
- Блин! У меня сайт ни один не грузится!
Я спрашиваю:
- А че выводит?
- Да тут сеточка какая-то постоянно!
Подхожу, смотрю. Она в экселе в строку для формул вводит адреса сайтов. Я плакал. Весь офис плакал.
 
     
В военкомате.
- “Среди вас есть глухие?”
Признались двое, остальные сделали вид, что не расслышали… 
 
ПАМАГИТЕ!!! Весь отдел в стрессе… Вышел новый ночальнег сегодня. Как принимать всерьез человека с фамилией Гусьнах???
  
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WW2 Reenactment in Russia…

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January 27th, 2008 was the 65th anniversary of the end of the blockade of St. Petersburg. In the reenactment battle to honor all those who lived through the blockade of the city, and those who helped save lives while often losing their own, war history clubs of St. Petersburg, Priozersk, Moscow, Kolomna, Kaliningrad, Kazan, as well as countries like Estonia, Belorussia, England, Ireland, Sweden, and Finland participated in the event. While there were just 400 of the participants, the number of people who watched the event was close to 30,000…

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Picture of the Day 01/29/2008

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