More subprime collateral damage. Iceland's now getting a
$5B bailout from Russia. What does Russia want in
return? Access to shipping lanes? The old US base?
via
posted by blahblah
on Oct 7, 2008 -
48 comments
Trains of Russia, photos from
Pavoroz.com, a site about the railways of Russia, the Baltics and the C.I.S. (
Commonwealth of Independent States).
More than 50 000 pictures of steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, EMU and DMU trains, draisines, stations, tracks, etc. The collection is updated daily. The Turkestan-Siberian railway.
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posted by nickyskye
on Oct 6, 2008 -
26 comments
Soviet Music "You are browsing a resource which is devoted first of all to the history and culture of the Soviet Union, the country which the West for a long time usually named as "The Empire of Evil", the country to which some people in the West perceive as "something big and snowy".
I offer you to try to look outside the frames of usual stereotypes, to try to understand life of a unique country, with its interesting history, beautiful culture and miraculous relations between people.
The music submitted on this site - is an evident sample of a totally new culture, which completely differs from all that, with what Hollywood and MTV supply us so much. This culture, being free from the cult of money, platitude, violence and sex, was urged to not indulge low bents of a human soul but to help the person to become culturally enriched and to grow above himself."
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posted by tellurian
on Sep 23, 2008 -
16 comments
This year alone, over 20,000 Russian Orthodox pilgrims followed an icon of St. Nicholas from Kirov to Velikoretskoye on foot. The 180km-long pilgrimage through the Russian countryside dates back to the 14th century.
Sergey Kozmin's photos. Some extra info
here.
posted by ersatz
on Aug 15, 2008 -
6 comments
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died. (
BBC ) The great author and opponent of totalitarianism lived to see the end of Communism in the Soviet Union and almost everywhere else. He survived WWII as a commander in the Soviet army before being put into gulags where he spent 20 years. He went on to write the
Gulag Archipelago and win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.
posted by sien
on Aug 3, 2008 -
75 comments
As Moscow changes, so does its population of stray dogs. During Soviet times, Moscow's stray dogs foraged for food and avoided humans, since there wasn't much to be gained from begging. As the city became increasingly affluent, the dogs' behavior changed radically. Some recent adaptations include passive subway begging, observing stoplights, and a food scam called the "come-from-behind ambush." The stray dogs, whose population is estimated at 26,000, have even ceased some of their interpack warfare. Observe the Moscow subway dog
here.
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posted by Afroblanco
on May 29, 2008 -
26 comments
It stands as one of the more unusual turning points of the Cold War, thanks mostly to the surprise appearance of several naked middle-aged women. Taking The Cure: How a group of British Columbian anarchists inspired democracy in Russia.
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posted by amyms
on May 13, 2008 -
7 comments
Kiuchi Nobuo - a Japanese airman in World War II, was captured and sent to a prison camp in the Ukraine. He tells his story with drawings.
posted by tellurian
on Feb 5, 2008 -
23 comments
"The "
American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," (
wikipedia) was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I." The ostensible purpose was to open an Eastern Front following the Russian withdrawal from World War I, but in practice the unit stayed to fight Bolshevism. An archive of the expedition, which gives wonderful insight into early Bolshevik Russia as well as war-weary United States, is
online.
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posted by Rumple
on Jan 25, 2008 -
23 comments
So we've already learned how babies are made in
Germany. But we haven't seen
Russia or
Israel. Could be NWS if you work with people who don't know where babies come from.
posted by Lord_Pall
on Jan 21, 2008 -
31 comments
After 60 years of separation due to her family being marked as an enemy of the people, and sent off to
internal exile a couple who spent only three days together after their marriage
have reunited, in an amazing stroke of luck.
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posted by korej
on Jan 18, 2008 -
39 comments
The livejournal group ru_graphic has been showcasing great artists for years, such as
soamo,
desmonych,
floksystar,
malli-ly,
olliwander,
omie-yomie,
zuza1,
ya-ya,
varka,
solntsev-gleb,
adul and
names.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Dec 19, 2007 -
12 comments
