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Small offtopic. I am writing (in Russian :) ) an article about a cargo cult in a movies. And I was faced with the fact that I can not find a reverse translation from Russian into English of the term submariners "devil's bells". Speech about the sound of echolocation, that in English is called...

Sorry for the delay in answering, I have not visited this forum for a long time. The Kerch shooter was armed with a Hatsan Escort pump-action shotgun. Weapons of this class are sold relatively freely in Russia.

I got an interesting map. Is it that it turns out that there are so many beggars in the USA? Or am I somehow mistaken in the interpretation of this data? It warms my soul that Russia looks so good here :) Origin: Mapping Extreme Poverty Around the World

Moscow a few days ago. Photo from the hospital where my daughter is being treated.

SATELLITE images reveal Moscow is massively reinforcing its strategic Kaliningrad outpost, positioned like a knife at the throat of NATO in the Baltic Sea. "knife at the throat of NATO". Sometimes the arrogance of Western inhabitants is simply amazing. At first they surround Russia from all...

French hero, who sacrificed himself to save a hostage from an Islamist, won’t have a place named after him as ‘it may offend Muslims’ One of the things that do not accept and do not understand in Russia. The dictatorship of tolerance is not for us. The feat of Arnaud Beltrame was widely...

Many in the West do not want to understand that now any murder of a journalist or a politician in Russia is a powerful blow to the Kremlin. Therefore, the Kremlin is clearly not interested in such actions. Even assuming the Kremlin’s interest in the assassination, this assassination should be of...

A little bit about how the opposition is being suppressed in Russia. For example, a certain Arkady Babchenko. The oppositionist, who allegedly fled to Ukraine from persecution. And who not so long ago faked his death, ostensibly to catch the Russian killer. After the tragedy in the Crimea, this...

Photos of the Crimean shooter with surveillance cameras. Yes, I forgot to mention that he shot himself. His page on the social network Vkontakte is filled with very extremist content, but was abandoned in 2014. And here it is impossible not to criticize the Russian law enforcement officers, who...

In Crimea today was a terrorist attack a la Columbine. A student brought a hunting rifle and an improvised explosive device to the Polytechnic College. 18 students were killed, several dozens injured. Motives are not yet known. ... And to the question of the Russian opposition. Again...

I have already written more than once why this is not so. In Russia, the penetration of the Internet is not inferior to the American. And we have the Internet with respect to information is still free. Here, the top chart is Internet penetration, the bottom one is smartphone penetration...

We in Russia are simply amazed how weak and weak-willed the US is. America can shake just a quarter of a million views on social networks. Yes, you need to build an iron information curtain to escape! :) In Russia, tens of millions of people are daily exposed to Western propaganda. And nothing...

Musical pause :) An example of modern Russian popular musical culture. The song of the group "Leningrad": "ЗОЖ" ("ZOZh" = HLS = healthy lifestyle). The band plays household alcoholic punk rock, but it has very interesting clips :) In this song, it’s said that if you don’t have brains in your...

Here is an example of one of the memes that figured in one of the charges. In Russia there is an old saying: "Russia has two misfortunes - fools and roads." Here someone posted this picture with the same signature. And ready - the accusation of inciting hatred against the Orthodox.

To avoid the impression that everything is fine in Russia :D On the issue of freedom of speech on the Internet. This is really crap that scares me and angry. This summer, for the first time, I was engaged in cleaning my blog, deleting pictures for which I could be convicted of extremism and...