Russia in photos. Without politics.

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  1. Mr_Truth

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    ^ very beautiful flowers!
     
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    Just Russian breakfast now. Vodka. Caviar :)

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    vodka, roe, & brown bread ~ sounds intriguing
     
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    At the Chinese radio-controlled Lego technic tank, I took off the tower and mounted an old FPV quadrocopter. It turned out "RPV-tank" :) My son does not understand much yet, but my daughter was absolutely delighted yesterday. She locked herself in one room and crushed us with the help of this tank in another :)

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    My daughter and I went to the museum of Russian lubok and naive art yesterday. To avoid clogging up a lot of photos, I posted them as a separate album on Facebook and tried to make an experiment with double commenting, in English and Russian. I do not know if this is a convenient approach, but I'm too lazy to lead two separate sections separately in Russian and separately in English.

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    Yesterday I went with my daughter to the Cosmonautics Museum to perform the next stage of the school Olympiad. But there was a HUGE queue at the entrance. I had to give up going to the museum and just climb the snowdrifts :)

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    New Russian banknotes, 2000 rubles. It's something about $35. Earlier there were banknotes of 1000 rubles and 5000 rubles. I do not know why it was necessary to fill this gap, I do not see the need for these new banknotes, but it turned out very nicely. It's nice to hold in hands :) Also, the Central Bank for Android released an application of augmented reality, which "unfolds" such banknotes in space. It's useless, but beautiful :) There are cars moving on the bridge, ships are sailing under the bridge. Around the rocket planets are spinning.

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    It rains. Photographed now from the balcony :) Quality bad, so that the drops are not smeared, I had to shoot on ISO3200. And in addition - a small crop. But it's still interesting :)

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    On this day, May 19, the Day of Pioneers was celebrated in the USSR :D The Pioneer Organization in the USSR is something of the type of American scouts, only it had coverage all over the country and with ideological overtones. I completely forgot this date, if it was not remembered in Telegram - it would not have occurred to me :) Under this case - photos, which are exactly 35 years old (+ month) - April 22, 1983. On the photos - the day when I was accepted into the pioneers :)

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    Nice work, Balancer.
     
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    I, too, probably would like to ignore myself. Nirvana. This is bliss, when I do not exist :) But, alas. It was a hard week, when you had to work at night, and in the daytime - to sit at home with your children. And I slept for 3-5 hours a day.

    And this is happiness. Russian SF&F writer Sergey Lukyanenko described very well in the novel "The morning is approaching", than happiness differs from joy. Accursed electronic translator will accurately come up with everything in the semantic subtleties :)

    And I finally have Friday. I'll drink brandy until I fall, and then I'll sleep until I wake up. This is joy (not to be confused with happiness!) :D
     
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    Just Moscow, the Sokol district that day 15 years ago. July 11, 2003 :)

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    One of these days for the first time has swept on #MCC. This is the outer ring Moscow railway in the Moscow metro system. Movement on it began almost two years ago, but before that my routes did not intersect with it. And now it was required with VDNKh to Voykovskaya to go and the option through the new ring seemed more successful. I noticed how quiet the new trains, "Lastochka" ("Swallow"). And that they have not only toilets, but also racks for bicycles. Civilization! :) And a very smooth move. And the acceleration, and the movement - like clockwork. You can build card houses - they will not fall apart :D

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    Russia seems to be the only sane country on the planet at the moment. Now some idiot will call me a troll! :rolleyes:
     
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    For many years my attention has been attracted to the question of the constant increase in the energy intensity of household appliances. Well, remember, the battery at Terminator-3 exploded with an atomic explosion. And then all this news about the fire and exploded phones, laptops, and recently - electronic cigarettes. Recently, on the roadside near the house, I found a campfire. Wondered why suddenly someone needed a fire near the road? This we only see in the movies about the American homeless people :) Yes, and the place of the fire looks somehow not very natural. When I passed by the third time, I came closer. I see - a lot of burnt out 18650 batteries. It's unlikely that the Musk's Tesla burned, so, given the number of batteries and the absence of other large components, it is likely that some owner of self-balancing scooter (or something like that) was unlucky.

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    Last weekend I went to a friend's dacha. Drank beer with him :) Here he mows the grass in front of the dacha being built. By the way, it's funny that Google does not want to translate the word "dacha". How correctly to name a country house for summer holidays? Holiday cottage? Weekend house? Country cottage?

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    ''dacha'' is the term commonly used in the USA - no translated term is needed

    this is similar to the commonly used word "bodega" for a small grocery store from a Hispanic community
     
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    For two weeks now I have been regularly cruising between my village and Kaliningrad. I'm preparing the finishing in a new apartment, which I bought last year. Therefore, foreign forums do not have time to write, mostly I write to my Russian-language Twitter and Telegram :) Although there are many interesting photos. All this time the weather was very hot on our street, to +30..32 °C (+86..90 °F). And this is at a humidity of 80-90%. Today the temperature has dropped to comfortable at +25 °C (+77 °F) and it rained. Photographed it from the balcony :)
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    Since I got here, here is another photo taken the other day. Closer to the political theme of the forum :) Periodically low overhead fly new Su-30SM. Train pilots. Looks beautiful, a pair of fighters sweeps in the sky as glued to each other, as one. I see these aircrafts here for the first time, apparently, the renewal of the aircraft fleet has reached these places. Before, only Su-24 bombers were flying and, rarely, Su-27 fighters.

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    A little art. Steampunk-horror at the bus station in Kaliningrad :)

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    Rosehip (Brier? Eglantine?) In the yard in the village.

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    And the neighbor's cat to you! :)

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    I do have a theory on this from my research into the Edgar Cayce writings and predictions:

    Out of Russia comes hope, Edgar Cayce and Bob Jones
     
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    Every time I come to the Kaliningrad region from Moscow, I am amazed by the texture of the local sky :) In Moscow the sky is less expressive. It is usually either purely monotonic-blue, or covered with dense clouds. In Kaliningrad, the sky often has a very beautiful drawing. Here in this photo is my village after the rain. It was only a few hours after the strongest downpour, the pictures of which I posted above.

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    That looks beautiful.

    However there is this:

    And our President seems to want the U.S to deal with it as well.
     

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