Pre-Revolutionary Colour Photos

Newsweek recently published a fantastic slide show of pre-revolutionary photos from the Russian countryside.  Colour photography was still in its infancy at the time, and the colours have a slightly washed-out, ethereal feel to them.   The photographer’s name is Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, and you can read more about him and his photographic method at his [...]

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Demitry Medvedev

http://news.kremlin.ru/video/256?page=2
Check out this video, it’s very interesting and caused huge publicity in Russia.
You can also check out the text which you can translate into English. Let me know what you thought
http://blog.kremlin.ru/post/35/transcript

 

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Russia vs Slovenia

Match this saturday 14th November at 4pm and is palyed in Moscow. Go Russia! Victuary is important for Russia to make it to World Cup 2010.

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A glimpse into the Russia of the 1980s- Порушка- Параня

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The Queen of Spades on film

Here is the link to the first part of Igor Masslennikov’s 1982 adaption of The Queen of Spades to film. It’s remarkably true to the script, in Russian with English subtitles. I highly recommend a viewing…

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The Murky World of Russian Football

Soviet and Russian soccer, the nation’s favourite past-time, has been long riddled by state interference. The nation’ s professional leagues have long been the subject of bizarre stories. In Soviet times each club, the overwhelming majority of whom were based in Moscow, were affiliated with some arm of the state- Dinamo of the KGB, CSKA [...]

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When mushroom-picking goes wrong…

Poor Irina Fedino, 37,  has been the centre of considerable interest in the Russian media this week after stumbling out of the forest after 24 days lost in the wilderness. Ms Fedino had been partaking in the annual Russian mushroom picking season near her home in the Urals when she lost her way. The problem [...]

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A Warning

Sorry, forgot to mention, the more squeamish amongst you may wish to give it a miss…

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Inside the Moscow Siege

Channel 4 did a great documentary about the Moscow theatre siege recently. They’ve now put it up on their website. It’s quite dramatic, but well put together and revealing…

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Too Much Snow? Simple, Bomb the Sky…

Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow’s ultra-conservative and perenially controversial mayor, has been linked with a campaign to create a snow-free city by the winter of 2010. Recently re-elected as mayor in somewhat dubious circumstances, Luzhkov’s idea is not his first attempt to conquer nature. He previously vigourously promoted the idea of re-routing the rivers of Siberia into [...]

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