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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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3:56 am - Zaraysk.
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The Moscow region covers an area larger than Belgium, Denmark or Switzerland, and is full of interesting sights, in varying degrees of preservation and remoteness from the metropolis.
My favourite places lie south of Moscow and one of them is Zaraysk, situated about 162 km southeast from the city.
Now Zaraysk is a tiny town. But actually it's famous for its rare artefacts from the late Stone Age. The finds has been unearthed not far from Zaraysk kremlin.
( a small report + photos )
Photos by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) smisl_ylibacca (mostly) and me except (*) - by serapion.
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| Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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5:18 am - Summer.
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russian towns
Gelendzhik is a resort town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the Gelendzhik Bay of the Black Sea, between Novorossiysk (31 km to the northwest) and Tuapse (93 km to the southeast). The municipality of Greater Gelendzhik spawls for 102 kilometers along the coastline. Population: 50,012 (2002 Census).
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| Friday, October 9th, 2009
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5:24 am - History.
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| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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4:17 pm - Cigarette.
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| Monday, August 17th, 2009
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9:39 am - Bloodtype.
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19 years ago Viktor Tsoi died in an automobile accident at the age of 28.
He was a Soviet rock musician, leader of the band Kino. Few musicians in the history of Russian rock-music have been more popular or have had more impact on their genre than Victor Tsoi and Kino.
Yesterday I happened to find the most popular Tsoi's song Blodtype in English.
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| Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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12:44 pm - For muscovites.
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| Friday, May 1st, 2009
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3:20 pm - MayDay in Russia.
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1:05 pm - Posters by Swoboda.
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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10:19 am - Kaliningrad.
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Kaliningrad is the most European piece of Russia. Of course I knew that before leaving for Sheremetievo airport. An hour and a half flew quickly and i found myself in Khrabrovo, 25 km from Kaliningrad.
We caught a bus and went to the city.
Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg, has a long, complicated history, with occupation by various nations over the centuries, including Germany, Russia, Sweden, and even Napoloen for a short time in 1807. This background has left a legacy of interesting architecture and a number of museums, although all suffered some disrepair during the Soviet times.
Every guidebook will tell you that buildings and structures worth seeing and photographing in Kaliningrad include the cathedral, which has already been renovated and refurbished completely, the unfinished Soviet office block often referred to as “the monster”, built on the site of a famous thirteenth century German castle, and the statue of two bulls in front of the city court residence.
But don't trust.
There are several old German areas with the fairy-tale houses under tiled roofs. And this parts of the city are much more interesting.
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| Thursday, March 26th, 2009
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3:19 am - Advert by Dali.
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  Do you know that Chupa Chups logo was designed by the famous surrealist Salvador Dali in 1969? |
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| Friday, February 27th, 2009
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9:33 am - Bottle Of Viagra.
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A Russian man died after swallowing a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour sex marathon with two female friends.
The women reportedly bet Russian mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn't be able to follow through on his half-day sex marathon claims. But soon after winning the bet, the 28-year-old died of an apparent heart attack.
One of the women, who identified herself only as Alina, said, "We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do."
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| Friday, January 30th, 2009
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12:18 am - Quack.
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| Monday, August 25th, 2008
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8:22 am - National idea 2.
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| Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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2:00 am - OMG!
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Women in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Ukraine, greeted the first Russian navy ship to return from Georgia.
via ng68
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| Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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4:39 am - Summer. Moscow.
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| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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10:00 am - The First Step.
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I only wish to say that for a good life a certain order of good actions is indispensable; that if a man's aspirations toward right living be serious they will inevitably follow one definite sequence; and that in this sequence the first virtue a man will strive after will be self-control, self-restraint. And in seeking for self-control a man will inevitably follow one definite sequence, and it this sequence the first thing will be self-control of food. And if he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because, to say nothing of the excitation of the passions caused by such food, its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling -- killing; and is called forth only by greediness and the desire for tasty food
"But why, if the wrongfulness of animal food was known to humanity so long ago, have people not yet come to acknowledge this law?" will be asked by those who are accustomed to be led by public opinion rather by reason.The answer to this question is that the moral progress of humanity -- which is the foundation of every other kind of progress -- is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual, progress is its uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration.
And the progress of vegetarianism is of this kind. That progress is expressed in the actual life of mankind, which from many causes is involuntarily passing more and more from carnivorous habits to vegetable food, and is also deliberately following the same path in a movement which shows evident strength, and which is growing larger and larger -- viz. vegetarianism.That movement has during the last ten years advanced more and more rapidly. More and more books and periodicals on this subject appear every year; one meets more and more people who have given up meat; and abroad, especially Germany, England, and America, the number of vegetarian hotels and restaurants increases year by year.
This movement should cause special joy to those whose life lies in the effort to bring about the kingdom of God on earth, not because vegetarianism is in itself an important step towards that kingdom (all true steps are both important and unimportant), but because it is a sign that the aspiration of mankind towards moral perfection is serious and sincere, for it has taken the one unalterable order of succession natural to it, beginning with the first step.
One cannot fail to rejoice at this, as people could not fail to rejoice who, after striving to reach the upper story of a house by trying vainly and at random to climb the walls from different points, should at last assemble at the first step of the staircase and crowd towards it, convinced that there can be no way up except by mounting this first step of stairs.
by Leo Tolstoy
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| Sunday, June 1st, 2008
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4:20 pm - Manualist.
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| Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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11:35 pm - Neighbor.
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  On Saturday I watched "Future Shorts" and liked this one most of all. "..there might be some sex at the party..")) ( or on youtube )
current mood:  cheerful
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2:58 pm - Golden squad.
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Have shared this nice photo with my friend, I found more awesome one.
The army of Russian popes in the Moscow centre. The weather is awful and angry with them))
+The whole report from yesterday celebration of The Day of Slavonic Culture.
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| Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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9:59 am - Russian Folk Handicraft.
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