Yes, we’ve already shown you pictures of Russian Military preparing for the May 9th Victory parade. Those pictures were taken on a militray base outside Moscow. What you are about to see now took place in Moscow two days go. Here are all branches of Russian military taking over the streets of Moscow - creating traffic nightmare for the drivers, and unbelievable spectacle for the public, all while practicing for the big parade next Friday!!! (43pics + 2 videos, Enjoy!!!)
This year’s annual May 9th Victory Parade on Red Square, will be a bit different from the recent ones, and in many ways will remind the world of the Cold War military parades which USSR did back in the day. This year aside from soldiers of different military branches of the army parading, long range bombers, aviation display teams, tanks as well as Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles units will all take part in the event. Practicing for the event is well underway and here are pictures from a military base near Moscow, where it all takes place…
Here are pictures from the joined training of Russian Spetsnaz and Chinese Special Forces unit that took place near Moscow…
Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations along with local firefighters did some training exercises near Moscow recently. The goal was to upgrade their skills and be prepared, in case there will be a flooding coming this spring, here are the pictures from the event…
Imagine waking up one morning and seeing an entire arsenal of Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles pass through your little town. That’s exactly what happened with citizens of a tiny Russian city in Krasnoyarsk region…
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner, so the official ceremony of the Olympic Torch traveling all over the world is well under way. On Apil 05th, 2008 it had visited Russia, well Saint Petersburg to be exact, where it was carried by 80 of the most known people in sports, business, tv, etc… Here are some pictures from that event…
Girl mud wrestling is quite popular in America, and this trend seems to be spreading. The first girl mud wrestling show was recently held in Novosibirsk, Russia. They do these “fights” in the night clubs as well as show them on local TV networks, with plans of inviting Poland and Ukraine to make this even more fun…
A skiing & snowboarding competition was held in St. Petersburg few days ago, here are the pictures from the event…
Looking at these pictures of the St. Patrick’s Day that was held in Moscow yesterday, you might think that there is a large population of Irish living in Russia. In reality majority of these people are Russian who just went out to have a good time. These days people in Russia openly celebrate Halloween, so why not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day???
Here are pictures from the opening of a new Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia…
Historically one very old Russian holiday that remained virtually unchanged is called “Maslenica”. The main purpose of this holiday/ritual is to say goodbye to winter, and welcome long awaited spring. This is considered a people’s holiday that’s why large groups of folks gather up and have a good time, they burn up a scarecrow which supposed to represent winter, they make and eat a lot of pancakes and as we see in this case they decided to do a traditional wall on wall “fight” but it’s all in good fun… Here is the video, as well as a big gallery of images from ”Maslenica” held in Moscow and Yekaterinburg…
Here are pictures from the “Favorite Challenger 2007″ horse race that was held in Yekaterinburg last year…
Here are pictures from St. Petersburg’s Anichkov Palace where these lucky kids had their party/prom, brings back memories doesn’t it ???
Lets be honest, trucks covered in dirt and men running around digging them out, don’t seem to have any romantic meaning behind them. Surprisingly there is a bigger story behind this race. As you should know March 8th is Universal Women’s day, because of that guys decided to do this jeep mud race calling it “For Adorable Ladies” obviously it looks like they all had fun but to make it even better, the winner got a chance to send a big bouquet of flowers to his loved one…
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Chrysler car company in Russia decided to give $15,000 discount on a purchase of any Jeep car they produce if the future owner first lets them destroy their car publicly by a tank, there were few volunteers…
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