Beiträge mit dem Schlagwort English Russia

This part of Afghanistan will definitely freak the hell out of any normal person. It’s dirty, smelly and disgusting. There, no one will care of you and your life will cost nothing. Chaos, disorder and impunity – these words have … Read more…

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It’s being quite popular among Russian astronauts, or actually the Cosmonauts to blog from space, while staying on the International Space Station. As a result we can get pretty unique photos with live comments of how our Earth can be seen from that altitude, unedited and pretty amateur looking making this kind of fun even more charming.

Here we have a huge pack of freshly shoot photos while flying somewhere there above our heads, gotten directly from Russian space agency as the space blogger has published them live thru his blogging account. It’s twenty first century, baby!

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Photographer Jason Eskenazi from the USA visited Russia in 1991 for the first time, it was on the eve of the August putsh, and since then he has returned to post-Soviet countries many times. The result – some exhibitions and a book “Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith”. His photographs are rather popular in the west. Jason says that USSR is a gloomy utopian nightmare . He believes that it’s a tragedy that people of the ruined empire, who are not ready for a new life, who don’t see their place in future,  feel nostalgic about the communistic past.

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The Aral Sea was once one of the largest seas of the continent. It was fed up by two powerful rivers that were later turned away by the decision of Soviet authorities. They started using water of those rivers for agriculture and just look how it dramatically changed the look of the sea, which is now a mere puddle.

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Abandoned locomotives in Zlatoust city (the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia).

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Cool idea and cool implementation!

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This how some Russian artists see Moscow after 2012. Those can go as wallpapers I guess, the big images are available on click. read more..

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