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Russian Public Holidays
С ДНЕМ НАРОДНОГО ЕДИНСТВА! Today is the state holiday “Day of National Unity”, which holiday has replaced the former state holiday that fell on November 7th, “Day of the Great October Socialist...
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The funny, ridiculous, trivial and preposterous thread.
Via the Doghouse, what each country leads the world in: http://thedoghousediaries.com/5414 Russia leads in raspberries and nuclear warheads!
View ArticleRussia and Russians in the Eyes of Hollywood
How about this analysis for starters: Россия Чужой Взгляд №1. Русские девушки глазами иностранце (Russia As Seen By Outsiders №1: Russian girls in the eyes of foreigners) I was going to translate it,...
View ArticleRussian opposition nails itself by the balls
So... Pyotr Pavlensky, who sat for an hour and a half outside the Lenin Mausoleum with the nail through his testicles yesterday, described his ‘Fixation’ act as “a metaphor for apathy, political...
View ArticleRussian Railways
A Moscow Times article on one of the results of the rapidly ongoing updating of Russian railways: Russia's First Double-Decker Train Departs to Adler. Such double-deckers, by the way, are not an...
View ArticleRacism in Russia
So an attack against Russia on the grounds of racism has been launched today in a lengthy Moscow Times article about a black American trainee ballerina at the Bolshoi who claims she has suffered from...
View ArticleRussia arrives in world Rugby
Russia gets to play Japan at a Rugby match in North Wales. When Rugby was an amateur sport, Japan played at the top level. Since professionalism, Japan has faded out of the top ten but is still good....
View ArticleWhy don't I like Russian music?
I'm trying to learn more about russian popular music, but I don't really love what I have found so far. One exception: I do love Igor Rasteryaev, this song in particular (maybe because I am a major fan...
View ArticleRussian Air Force Thread
A general thread for news and discussions about the Russian Air Force. New batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers was delivered to the VVS today. Первый Су-34 передан ВВС России по гособоронзаказу 2013 г....
View ArticleAny good documentaries on Shamil Basayev?
Are there any good Russian documentaries on Shamil Basayev or any of the foregn jihadist leaders in Chechnya? All information in the west takes a pro-Chechen angle where terrorism is never an issue...
View ArticleCannot post comments in Internet Explorer 11 browser
It has since been resolved but IE 11 also had a problem with YouTube that I think had to do with one of there recent updates conflicting with Abode Flash player but I can't type in comments in the...
View ArticleThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Still a few months to go, but this has been a hot topic for years and it's really heating up now as it's drawing near. Various naysayers have consistently been saying that these Olympics should be...
View ArticleUkraine 10 years on
I thought I would post this despite the site's imminent demise. I first visited Ukraine in 2003, travelling to Kiev and Donetsk and I've just returned from a trip to the capital and to Crimea, so a few...
View ArticleMoscow Weather (and other places as well)
Talking about the weather is supposed to be one of the favourite pastimes of my fellow countrymen. I should add, however, that I find meteorology extremely interesting and I love poring over...
View ArticleThe "Anti-Gay Law" in Russia
On the Snowden-Tug-of-War thread, Drutten stated that he would like to see a discussion here about "this 'anti-gay' law and all the 'crackdown' stuff", so here goes... Firstly, in order to get the ball...
View ArticleWhither Georgia?
Failed Washington sock-puppet throws a tantrum at UN. See: Russian UN delegates walk out over Saakashvili’s ‘Russophobic and anti-Orthodox’ speech There still appear articles in the West that state...
View ArticleSO... HAS THE RUSSIA MOMENT PASSED?
Did we all start this debate too late? I notice it has fallen off of late. Russia has been a major bogeyman for some time and that fire has been stoked by Berezovskiy (now departed this mortal coil)...
View ArticleRussian Aviation Industry
An interview with Sergey Chernyshev of TsAGI about the 2020 project; I previously thought that this would simply be an airplane project, but it seems that it is something more interesting:...
View ArticleTHE SERDYUKOV AFFAIR
Shoigu has just made his first report as Defence Minister to the Duma. Here is a report about it from Itar Tass. http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c142/746077.html If one judges by this report then Serdyukov...
View ArticleRussian Navy Thread
And here's a thread for news and discussion about the Russian naval forces. The Mistral affair has made quite a few rounds in the news over the past couple of years, mostly due to the fact that such a...
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