http://freakrussia.com Pure facts about Russia from the inside Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:04:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FreakRussiahttp://feedburner.google.com Huge giants from grey stone in the middle of the central square of Novosibirsk, named after Lenin, leader of Russian Communists of the 20s. Lenin, a core of the stone composition, is accompanied by a worker and a collective farmer on the right and three soldiers on the left. The ... http://freakrussia.com/a-reminder-of-communism.html http://freakrussia.com/moscow-today.html Skeletons of unfinished buildings everywhere, cranes of different sizes all around, broken fences around neglected construction sites. This is a typical picture of Novosibirsk today, and not only in the outskirts, but in the city center as well, where a lot of new business centers were projected.  Building boom of the ... http://freakrussia.com/skeletons-of-unfinished-buildings.html The celebration of the 115th anniversary of the city of Novosibirsk was accompanied by the brides’ parade, an event, which attracted more than 100 couples who decided to yoke in marriage on this very day, right in the city center, to ovations of thousands of spectators. The action was followed by ... http://freakrussia.com/siberia-brides.html ...for the kidnapping of the bride at the wedding of a friend! Moscow military court delivered its verdict on the case against two brothers – an RF Defense Ministry officer,  Ivan Ivannikov,  and officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB)  Denis Ivannikov who kidnapped the bride from the brothers’ wedding, told ... http://freakrussia.com/fsb-officer-arrested-for-3-years.html 1941 Commons buy soda water at Kusnetsky Most street. Non-commons are at the coctail hall. The Life magazine's postscript: "The new expensively decorated stylish Coctail-hall at Gorky street, the most wealthy and elite people, such as writers, actors, artists, sculptors, cinema and theater men can test expensive coctail "Cowboy" here (it's cost ... http://freakrussia.com/back-to-the-past.html It was very long trip... 25 km way took 2 hours and 20 mins. To get some fun I've made pictures on my way. Used cars sale VAZ (Zhiguli) 2103 - very rare model now Workers thinking about the hole Can you guess the color of a car? A lot of cars have a lot of ... http://freakrussia.com/moscow-to-zheleznodorozhniy-on-friday.html It's very easy to understand when the first snow is here in Moscow. Just have a look into local traffic jam web service. Red lines are dead traffic jams, yellow - extremely slow moving. To reach Moscow Ring Road from the downtime you need at least 3 hours. And it's a ... http://freakrussia.com/first-snow-in-moscow.html If you know russian tale "Kolobok" and other folktales, you should understand this :) "I'm Rabbit" "It's not Kolobok, it's a geek!!!" "Hey, Fox, never seen Chupa-Chups candy?!" "And I'll sign a song now..." "So, Gray one, dont recognize? We are three piglets!" "OMG!!! 560 KKal!!!!" "Cannonade battle is already calm. Woodpeckers circled quiet..." http://freakrussia.com/russian-folktale-kolobok-and-more.html Decision to break away from Moscow has come right on the spur of the moment. It came in the evening – it was realized in the morning. Why I went to this particular place? I had to drop in some little village nearby. I’ve got out quite late, hustled at Profsoyuznaya ... http://freakrussia.com/tarutino-borovsk-part-i.html