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…
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…
We’ve recently showed you an open air rock concert that got spoiled by huge amounts of mud. Well, here are pictures from an open air car show in Russia, where mud also seems to have played its part…
A lot of interesting events take place in Moscow lately, this time it was a fun car spectacle held on Red Square, which got even more exciting since few Formula 1 cars had showed up…
Kazan is a large Russian city, approximately 500 miles east of Moscow. Tornadoes are very rare in Russia (unless your in the tropics) so It was definitely a big surprise for the citizens of Kazan (a non tropical city) to see a real tornado, after all this is Kazan, not Kansas…
One popular Russian rock radio station did their annual open air concert near Moscow. As you can tell from the pictures, something just didn’t seem right about the concert…
Today Russia beat Netherlands 3:1, and therefore it will be the first time that Russia will ever play in the semifinals of European Soccer Cup. Obviously tonight, thousands of fans (700,000 in Moscow alone) had stormed out on the streets of Russia to celebrate this amazing victory. Not to be outdone, Russian people living in New York did exactly the same thing, popping out on Brighton Beach (the Russian neighborhood in New York), beeping their car horns, blowing whistles, blocking couple of streets, and eventually getting cops called on them who helped control the crowd, enjoy…
P.S. The best part of the day was seeing some girl blowing a whistle while cheering, and then two grown men chasing her to get that whistle away from her just so they could be the loudest…
For the third year in a row the mayor of Moscow doesn’t grant a permit to the Russian gay/lesbian community to have a lawful parade. While the President of Russia states that Russia is open to, and does not oppose sexual minorities, he sees that making the decisions about whether or not to allow the gay parade in the capital of Russia - is a “local matter that should not be up to him to decide”. Anyway this year was a third consecutive attempt to stage an unauthorized gay parade, this time though there were a lot more press, and representatives of Russian Orthodox Church, than the actual gays and lesbians…
The entire Russia has only (and please don’t laugh) ONE somewhat professional asphalt race track, it’s called “Myachkovo” and and it’s used by cars as well as motorcycles. Here are few pictures from the first race of the Russian Motorcycle Championship race, where the pouring rain made things a lot more difficult for the riders…
Over the weekend, St. Petersburg had been celebrating the city’s birthday so all sorts of activities including the carnival took place, here are few pictures from that event…
Here is a video from the Russian Tractor racing competition. What could be more fun than old sweaty mechanics racing their old tractors for a chance to win a new one…
video is in Russian, but it’s still worth watching…
Graduation in a Russian school is a lot different from the one in the American ones. The students feel a lot more united, since they’ve spent 11 years in the same class with eachother (no individual schedules). Besides the prom, and the official ceremony students also like to occupy local fountains and just enjoy their freedom, before they eventually start college. Here is a gallery of 2007-08 graduates, enjoy…
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We’ve already told you about the new “Sukhoi Superjet 100 Regional Jet”. This plane had made it’s first flight in Komsomolks-na_Amure (eastern part of Russia) on May 19th, 2008. Who knows maybe these will be flying all over the world soon, just like the Brazilian Embraer-190, since the starting prices ($27 million) of these two birds are actually similar…
- here is how Superjet was created…
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We had recently shown you pictures from the “Theater Academy in St. Petersburg“, and here is something even more interesting. Russian Institute of Cinematography which was founded in 1919, and since the Soviet time is still abbreviated as “VGIK” (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) remains to be the world’s oldest educational institution in Cinematography. VGIK was the foremost film school in the Soviet Union and remains one of the world’s most respected film institutions. Its alumni include many prominent actors and directors, many of them non-Russian (the school began accepting foreign students in the middle of the 20th century). It’s fair to say that getting into that institution is extremely hard, and therefore many students try to get in for years, some succeeded and then become struggling artists, very few become successful movie stars and directors and that explains the high number of applicants. Take a look at these nervous students, maybe some of them will become future movie stars…
