Curling is probably one of the most unusual sports. It is a team sport, similar to bowling. bowling, with the difference that it is played on ice and with heavy polished stones. Well, in Russia they play it a little differently - with cars!
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This year, drivers were especially afraid of snow, as the new regulations on road maintenance relaxed the obligations of winter service. With the icy and snowy roads, many people are probably tired of the plowing system they have in Russia. There, a whole fleet of plowing vehicles goes to work together and the roads are plowed in no time.
Film Attraction or Prityazhenie, as the original title is, is proof that the Russians also know how to shoot high-budget sci-fi spectacles with Hollywood-worthy special effects. It's about an invasion of Aliens who land outside of American territory for a change.
Repairing roads and streets is expensive, the local authorities of the Primorski district in Russia's St. Therefore, Petersburg found it cheaper to tackle infrastructure repairs with the help of Photoshop and hire a graphic designer instead of a construction company. But the population quickly realized that the authorities used a trick when repairing the footpath, which was 'invented' by Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had the scenery of villages erected on the devastated and recently conquered territories along the banks of the Dnieper River during Catherine the Great's visit, in order to raised the importance of the newly conquered territories. The story of the digital Potemkin village spread like wildfire across Russia.
There are more than 7 billion people and 195 countries in the world. Beautiful people live in all countries in the world, there is no doubt about that, but certainly some countries stand out even in this criterion. So where do the most beautiful women come from?
There are two countries in the world that stand out for their bizarreness. One is Japan, and the other is, of course, Russia. So if you ever go to the largest country in the world, be prepared to encounter bizarre scenes that you can only see there. Is their everyday life any different from ours? Anyway!
If you're sick of American superhero movies, here's one the Russian way: Zaschitniki. America and Russia are eternal rivals, and their struggle for supremacy is taking place on all fronts. Now he has moved to the world of movies, more precisely to the world of superheroes, which Americans use primarily as a propaganda tool, as an export item that testifies to the omnipotence of the nation. History books tell who defeated whom in the space battle and the nuclear race, which superheroes would win in a direct fight, or Marvel's or. DC's or the heroes of the big-budget Russian film Zaschitniki, coming to theaters in 2017, may be left to the imagination forever.
All over the world, we celebrate the departure of winter and the arrival of spring with different customs. In Russia, for this purpose, they celebrate the Maslenitsa holiday, which lasts for a whole week, this year from February 16 to 22. The unknown Russian carnival, along with other Russian jokes and customs, is brought to us in an interesting way by a book from the collection Tales of Russian Life by Linguarus Publishing House, which, in addition to the cultural background, is also aimed at learning the Russian language, as it is written in both Slovenian and Russian.
Natalia and Ilja are a young couple who moved from vast Russia to the capital of our beautiful country less than a year ago. As vloggers, they describe life in Slovenia to their Russian compatriots with cute and informative videos, which they regularly publish on their website "KakNamTam" (How we are there) and on their YouTube channel.
A couch or sofa is one of those "territories" for which there is always a battle due to its strategic position, which no one can really appropriate and which is difficult to defend. This is especially difficult in large families. With the appearance of screens, which are an alternative to television, the fight has somewhat calmed down, but nothing will ever calm the situation more than the kilometer-long sofa that was recently erected on the Russian coast.
When we think of Russia, images of the Siberian cold, the cold war, cold human character, vodka, huts... Everything is somehow related to the cold, albeit only metaphorically. But Russia is not what it used to be either. Today, heat waves are splashing across its border as well, and people are cooling down as best they know how. If necessary, they can also turn the living room into a swimming pool, as a group of teenagers did.
It is less than three weeks until the start of the biggest sporting event of the year, the Winter Olympics in Sochi (soccer fans would be able to dispute this, as Brazil will host the 20th FIFA World Cup between June 9 and July 9), and preparations for it have been underway since in 2007.