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Soviet ballroom dances - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The usual loving soviet folk treatment. "On the contrary, a heat of Sudarushka during a ballroom competition often looked like a performance of a formation team, all competitors dancing almost the same routine"
ha  dance  soviet  russia  no 
april 2008 by maciej
MIG29 flight report
big texas dude describes his ride in one at an airshow
aviation  mil  mig29  russia 
april 2007 by maciej
Генезис цыганского музыкального фольклора Н.Бессонов
fascinating article on the role of Gypsy choirs in Russian musical culture. Argues that "traditional" Gypsy songs were a late invention by choirs that originally only interpreted Russian material
music  gypsy  russia  hist  cult  article  folklore 
october 2006 by maciej
A Foreign Affair (Harpers.org)
journalist rides with the theta males on a bride-hunting trip through the ukraine. Entertaining in a wrist-slitting kind of way
bride  sex  ukraine  russia  idiot  marriage  ha 
july 2006 by maciej
GEORGE FORBES
capsule bio of one of the endless stream of Scottish engineering geniuses of the 19th century. Took a long siberian trip to boot
bio  engineering  scotland  victorian  tech  travel  china  russia  siberia  want 
july 2006 by maciej
Article on Beijing's Russian 'hood
apparently the pedicab drivers say "bayaheli"
russia  beijing  cult  neighborhood  explore  cool  china  grocklebar 
july 2006 by maciej
Moscow metro photo (9 photos)
great photos of the innards of the moscow metro
metro  moscow  subway  img  cool  russia 
june 2006 by maciej
Vodka, elixir of the masses - Los Angeles Times
weirdly jocular article about Russian alcoholism. Those wacky russkies with their 52 year life expectancy!
booze  russia  wacky_fun  idiot  cult  sov 
april 2006 by maciej
Russians plan to drill through into Lake Vostok
spat over whether the russians will contaminate the lake, which has been sealed off for 10 million years and might have strange life in it
exobiology  antarctica  drilling  russia  eco  science  geo  cool  fossil 
march 2006 by maciej
Dead Hand nuclear retaliation system
the friendly (and possibly apocryphal) Russian doomsday device
russia  cccp  cold_war  nukes  yow  mil 
february 2006 by maciej
The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
Arkin blog post on increasingly contrived nuclear wargames designed to validate US doctrine
blog  nukes  russia  china  mil  strategy  politics  us 
november 2005 by maciej
Gammalsvenskby
bizarre Catherine-era Swedish enclave in the Ukraine
travel  sweden  russia  ukraine  ethno 
october 2005 by maciej
Two strontium powered lighthouses vandalised on the Kola Peninsula
apparently a huge amount of unsecured radioactive stuff is being used in power supplies across remote parts of russia
nukes  radiation  russia 
august 2005 by maciej
Yushchenko's acne points to dioxin poisoning
Guesswork about what happened to so radically change Yushchenko's appearance
politics  russia  science  ukraine 
december 2004 by maciej
Putin i zbrodnie w Czeczenii
amnesty for Russian army rapist/murderer of chechen girl looks imminent
chechnya  russia  war 
september 2004 by maciej
Литература
yet another russian lit server
lit  russia 
september 2004 by maciej
"Итоги" / В РОССИИ
Russia adopts Bush doctrine, hijinks will ensue
politics  russia  war_on_terrah 
september 2004 by maciej

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