2 month ago
Anil : "Where did this boat come from?" - Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The eight people who greeted her didn't quite understand that they had encountered a spaceship gone astray, and asked about the origins of her boat. Af
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2 month ago
Anil : "Where did this boat come from?" - Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The eight people who greeted her didn't quite understand that they had encountered a spaceship gone astray, and asked about the origins of her boat. Af
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2 month ago
nelson : Official Georgia warblog - Government of Georgia is communicating via blogger
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2 month ago
nelson : Russia and Georgia at war - and the whole world thinking about the olympics
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5 month ago
deusx : Flying penis - Sharenator.com - "As Kasparov spoke a toy penis with wings buzzed across the hall and around him. It was not clear who was behind the stunt."
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gleuschk : The Dyatlov Pass Mystery | MetaFilter - Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night at around -30 degrees Celsius for no obvious reason, casting aside skis, food, boots and most of their clothes. Soon they would be dead, some with
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9 month ago
nelson : Lost Cosmonauts - Italians in the late 1950s recorded Soviet space launch communications
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11 month ago
plasticbag : LiveJournal's moving to Russia! - Bumped into David Recordon yesterday at an Oauth brunch and he mentioned that there was some kind of gathering today, but he didn't say why. I guess this is it. Anil kept schtum as well. Cheeky swine.
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gleuschk : In memory of Andrei Vladimirovitch Roiter - some interesting history about the Kiev school of representation theory
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15 month ago
Linkorama : Interview with Estonian President - SPIEGEL Interview With Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves: 'We Want to Re-Write History'
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Time To Stand Up for Estonia - FT: That's not the case, however, with its effort to intimidate Estonia this week in clear-cut acts of aggression. A string of events calls for a strong, unified response because this is not as small a case as it looks.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : The right to be wrong - Estonia was unwise to provoke Russia—but deserves more support from its friends
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Trying to Tame the Russian Bear - German Foreign Minister Warns against a New Cold War
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Russia cuts off oil to Estonia - Andrus Ansip, the Estonian Prime Minister, appealed to the EU for support, saying that his nation’s sovereignty was under “heavy” attack.
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18 month ago
deusx : 'How we made the Chernobyl rain' | International News | News | Telegraph - "Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986."
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26 month ago
fastclemmy : English Russia » Photos made in Moscow subway - English Russia » Photos made in Moscow subway by fastclemmy & 1 other(s) hotlinks humour fun subway russia photos Copy | React (0)
Matthew M. Boedicker : funny pictures from the Moscow subway - (via Boing Boing) [via]
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philgyford : SovMusic.ru - Soviet Music - Lots of free Soviet MP3s. Hear a choir sing (apparently) 'Capital Oppresses Us' and other family favourites. Also, speeches and lots of Soviet posters.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Pictures of a huge open pit mine near Mirny, Russia, East Siberia - God knows why I'm linking to this, except that the hole looks really really big and big things are sort of impressive.
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29 month ago
jkottke : A collection of almost 1500 Soviet and Russian propaganda and advertising posters - A collection of almost 1500 Soviet and Russian propaganda and advertising posters. (thx, mark)
philgyford : USSR posters - a photoset on Flickr - 1,500 "Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters from 1917 to 1991." (via Kottke)
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30 month ago
philgyford : Jwz - space junk - Great photos of bits of rockets that have crashed to earth in and around Russia. (via Haddock)
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