«Welcome! Sochi 2014»: The Dark Side of Sochi Olympics by Artist Vasily Slonov
[Exactly one year before the long awaited Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin went to Sochi personally to see how the construction is going. After receiving a report saying the ski jumps that were supposed to be ready in 2011, are not completed still, while their price has sky-rocketed from 1.2 billion to 8 billion roubles, he commented, [Good for you. Good job], and then fired the vice president of the Olympic committee. Russian artist Vasily Slonov painted his view of the upcoming games, giving a new interpretation to the adored Russian mascot Cheburashka, and combining officially...
Yakutsk: The Coldest City on Earth
Yakutsk, a remote city in Eastern Siberia along the Lena River, is the coldest city in the world. Located 1840 km away from Irkoustk and 5000 km away from Moscow, this city founded in 1632 by the Cossacks imposes upon its inhabitants an extreme way of life. And yet, despite particularly harsh conditions, Yakutsk boasts a population of 270,000, or a quarter of the entire population of Siberia. No other place on the planet experiences the temperature extreme found here: in winter, the temperatures regularly fall to minus 40° (the coldest temperature recorded was –64°C) and in summer...
Photo Contest [Sacred and Valuable in Russia]
![Photo Contest [Sacred and Valuable in Russia]](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/short/0000cce8_medium.jpg "Photo Contest [Sacred and Valuable in Russia]")
[Hostess of the sweet]. The girl cooks jam. (Photo by Aleksandr Makarenko)...
Orthodox Believers Take an Icy Plunge on Epiphany
In an observance of Epiphany, Russian Orthodox believers swim in an icy pond outside Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. (Photo by Olga [Zwezdochka])...
[Stepan Razin's Dream] by Pelagea
![[Stepan Razin's Dream] by Pelagea](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/short/0000ac9a_medium.jpg "[Stepan Razin's Dream] by Pelagea")
[Ой, да не вечер] – the Russian national song. It is also known under the name [Stepan Razin's Dream]. It is sung on behalf of Cossack Stepan Razin ((1630–1671) was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and Tsar's bureaucracy in South Russia) who tells the bad dream foretelling trouble. Sings: Pelagea Sergeevna Efimova (born 14.06.1986 in Novosibirsk, Russia)....
Some More Kamchatka Photos – by Sergey Ivanov
Scene of action: Kuril lake, Kamchatka, Russia. (Photo by Sergey Ivanov)...
Anomaly Spotted In Russian Night Sky
These photos and video were taken in the Russian city of Astrakhan on the evening of June 7th, 2012. (Photo by Maxim Korotshenko)...
Russian Military Vehicles. Part I
BAZ-69092-012 special wheeled chassis. Exhibition of military vehicles at Bronnitsy test range (a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 54.5 kilometers (33.9 mi) southeast of central Moscow). Juny 10, 2011. (Photo by Vitaly Kuzmin)...
General Views Of Yekaterinburg: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – Host City Candidate
A general view of the Cathedral on the Blood on November 2, 2011 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Yekaterinburg is one of thirteen cities proposed as a host city for 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. (Photo by Harry Engels/Getty Images)...
The Last School Bell Day
The Last Bell (we mean the bell that informs the pupils about the beginning or the ending of the lessons) is the traditional feast of the Russian pupils who leave the school. The Last School Bell feast occurs in the end of May, when the school year has already finished, but the final examinations have not begun yet. (Read more...)...
![Rare [Hybrid] Total Solar Eclipse](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/short/00010c55_medium.jpg "Rare [Hybrid] Total Solar Eclipse")
