We have shown you what St. Petersburg had looked like in 1970s, here is what it looks like today…
We had recently shown you what Moscow looks like from a helicopter, here is what it looks like at night…
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The infamous soda machines, that were so popular back in USSR, can still be found fully functional in some Russian cities…
As you may have already heard, there is a bit of buzz about a Russian steel company “Mechel”. Vladimir Putin who is currently a Russia’s prime minister had spoken at a meeting of Russia’s steel producers and had voiced his concern that “Mechel” kept selling steel to European customers for prices that were twice as cheap as the ones that it was using to sell steel to its customers within Russia (as a result the company got away from paying taxes to the government). In the video Putin was very displeased with the fact that the company’s CEO said he was sick and therefore didn’t show up to the meeting. As a result Putin had said in a very serious tone that the company’s CEO better get well soon, or “we will have to send a doctor to him, to take care of this problem”. He had also said that the Federal anti-monopoly department should look at Mechel shady deals. As a result of this company’s stock went down 30% on New York Stock market…
Well we’ve already shown you that in Russia “health and safety does not get compromised“. Here is just another moronic example proving the opposite…
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Here are pictures of street break dancers from Habarovsk…
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Here are pictures of the amazing sand creations that were displayed at the world sand sculpture competition that currently takes place in Moscow…
We had recently shown you a Tornado in Kazan, and here is the flooding that the city had few days ago…
Well, here are the soviet “rigid airframe airships” or blimps for short (even though blimps don’t really have a rigid airframe). Anyway, if you ignore these formalities, you can see that Soviets were actively developing and using their blimps…
The interesting story behind a blimp your looking at right now, was that on September 6th 1935, due to a strong wind gust this blimp was blown off the airbase even though it had 60 anchored cables tying it to the ground. Long story short, a captain of the ship (N.S. Gudovancev) that at the time was on the ground, was able to catch one of the supporting cables and climb on to the ship, when it was already 120 meters up in the air. In the cabin , there were 4 adults and 11 children. When the height was 800 meters, he was able to start the engines and 5 hours and 45 minutes he safely landed the blimp after the bad weather had passed. The captain who had saved the ship (as well as people) received an Order of Red Star.
Lots of interesting things take place on Red Square lately, we had just showed you a car racing staged there, now here are pictures and a video of a new BMW 7-series that premiered there. The car was placed in a giant hourglass, so it could slowly reveal itself to the people…
Thanks to Russian police, it seems like we’ll never have a shortage of funny material about them. Taking a bribe in a public here, breaking laws in a public place there, simply scratching themselves, or just being themselves. Well, here are two more videos of dopey cops, and while you need to know Russian to understand the first one, the 2nd video is self explanatory…
