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Russian Meteor Photoshoot
by Nick Glossop on February 21, 2013
Fifteen minutes before the event. Copyright: Marat Akhmetvaleev
There is no shortage of video footage of the meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Feb. 15, 2013. Marat Akhmetvaleev’s photographs may, however, be the only high quality stills. He was out that frosty morning capturing images of the sunrise in the south Urals from a favorite vantage point when the small asteroid appeared in the sky.
This shot shows the trails of two …
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Post-Soviet Post-Meteor Humor
by Nick Glossop on February 20, 2013
1. Chelyabinsk before the meteor shower.
2. Chelyabinsk after the meteor shower.
h/t Alexandr Evstr…
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Old Believers Hiding From Stalin In The Taiga – Until 1978
by Nick Glossop on February 15, 2013
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
The four scientists sent into the district to prospect for iron ore were told about the pilots’ sighting, and it perplexed and worried them. “It’s less dangerous,” the writer Vasily Peskov notes of this part of the taiga, “to run across a wild animal than a stranger,” and rather than wait at their own temporary base, 10
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Meteor Strike In Russia
by Nick Glossop on February 15, 2013
A meteor that exploded over Russia this morning was the largest recorded object to strike the Earth in more than a century, scientists say. Infrasound data collected by a network designed to watch for nuclear weapons testing suggests that today’s blast released hundreds of kilotonnes of energy. That would make it far more powerful than the nuclear weapon tested by North Korea just days ago and the largest rock crashing
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Have A Great Great October
by Nick Glossop on November 6, 2012
Not much celebrated in Putin’s Russia, nonetheless it is the Day of the Great October Revolution (November 7), so storm and occupy the Winter Palace nearest you.
Spitting Image ~ Atop the Mausoleum
Matching hats, herring aplenty and a tank in every garage!…
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Pussy Riot ~ Samutsevich Freed On Appeal
by Nick Glossop on October 10, 2012
A little over a week after she fired her legal team for unspecified differences in point of view, Yekaterina Samutsevich has been freed on appeal, her sentence suspended.
The Moscow City Court ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich’s sentence should be suspended because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could remove her guitar from its case and take part in the performance.
“The punishment for an incomplete
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Pussy Riot ~ Kremlin Hints At Early Release
by Nick Glossop on September 12, 2012
Matryoshka Riot
Pussy Riot three should be freed, says Russian PM Dmitri Medvedev
Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, has called for three members of the punk band Pussy Riot to be freed, saying further time in prison would be “unproductive.”
Medvedev’s comments could signal the imminent release of the band members, whose case comes up for appeal on 1 October.
- Guardian
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Pussy Riot ~ Our Country Is Dominated By Evil Men
by Nick Glossop on September 7, 2012
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Snaps From The Underground ~ Soviet/Post-Soviet Punk
by Nick Glossop on August 29, 2012
Red Teddies, Leningrad 1984 c/o Alexander Boyko, from the archive of Ruslan Ziggelya
From the Barrelhouse has assembled an excellent gallery of images from the Russian underground scene (1980 – 2012): Teds, Mods, Punks, Bikers (and of course, Pussy Riot). Check them all out.
Willie and friends shooting the movie “Without a uniform.” Volgograd, 1988. From the archive of Villi.
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Sapien Cinema ~ Mark Of Cain
by Nick Glossop on August 26, 2012
The tattooing gun is fashioned from an electric razor, a ballpoint pen and some guitar string.
This is a very courageous documentary on the tattooing subculture in Russian prisons. I don’t know how it ever got made, but it’s beautiful, scary, and heartbreaking
- David Cronenberg
I have been waiting for some time for a reason to post this film, and I suppose Pussy Riot beginning their prison terms is …
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Pussy Riot Convicted!
by Matthew Payne on August 17, 2012
So, Just Who is the “Hooligan” in this Picture? (c/o UK Telegraph)
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Pussy Riot was convicted in a Russian court:
Judge Marina Syrova convicted the women of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, saying they had “crudely undermined social order”.
Well, then. It would almost be comical to read the deliberate stupidity of this verdict, with its schoolmarm’s hectoring tone, if it were …
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Matryoshka Riot!
by Nick Glossop on August 13, 2012
Via Dangerous Minds…
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