Yet Another Flood
Yet another flood, now in Ukraine in the city Nikolaev.
Russian GPS
In Russia now they develop a new GPS system – GLONASS – for inner use – probably in order not to rely on foreign GPS system for state uses. Here are a few samples of the end-user devices available on market.
Walking Fridge Boxes
One of the electronics retailers of Ekaterinburg city uses people walking in old fridge cartons as their shops ad carriers. They harass people on streets with some stuff, people as you can see on the pictures react aggressively, often try to kick those annoying walking fridge boxes.
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Kuntz-Kamera of St. Petersburg
“Kuntzkamera” it’s a museum in St. Petersburg. It’s a really strange place, was founded by Russian Tsar Peter the First. He collected different weird stuff all over the Russia to this museum: freaky people and animals preserved in alcohol, torture instruments, strange paintings and much more. Here are photos from that place.
New York Police Car in Russia
Sometime ago we had a Russian police car with New York plates on it. This time its something different: a New York Police Department car with Russian civil plates on it is found Moscow.
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Old Russian Car That Could Swim
One guy has told about a car that stays in his parking. It history goes back to Soviet times, the communist sixties.
It was a car that was designed and built by special Soviet car company, it had many advanced features at that time. It had some features never being implemented in Russian cars before: the clearance could be adjusted from with dashboard buttons, like on some modern SUVs, it had a button to start an engine, instead of a key, the dashboard indicated the current gear selected etc, it had heating of rear and front windows, and the main thing – it could run float on water as well as on regular roads.
Wooden “Half-Bridge” Project
Deep inside Russian countryside there is a place with a strange object. It’s made solely of wood and is called “The Half-Bridge of Hope”.
It looks like a wooden bridge from one side of hill to another which suddenly finishes on its half. It has no any logical meaning or practical purpose, just stands in one of numerous Russian villages as an art object, made of wood as everything other around it.
Lexus Smashed with Tractor on Purpose
You better do not park your new Lexus while on travel to Russia in wrong places!
Russian Sparta
A compilation of scenes of Russian life with the soundtrack of “300″ movie trailer. Take a look.
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Electronic Smoking Device
One of the hi-tech labs in Russia is going to launch a mass production of Electronic Smoking Device (ESD). It comes with software (Cyrillic screenshot below) and can be connected to USB port of any PC. It uses vacuum method and can be loaded with water for suction power.
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