Pictures, photographs, and images spreading in Russia and on the Russian-language internet, along with the stories surrounding them, translated into English.
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A photographer ventures into the depths of Yakutsk, east Russia, to photograph a death camp where many people were 're-educated' about the Stalinist regime.3 -
We interrupt our usual schedule to bring you news and reactions regarding meteorites that have fallen over the Urals in Russia. Videos and pictures included. -
After part of the wall and roof collapsed at Chernobyl, netizens discuss repercussions, following news that scientists have been evacuated from the power station. -
Moscow authorities appear to have been caught out Photoshopping snow off roads instead of actually sending teams out to clean them, according to one blogger. -
Russia's national airline, Aeroflot, have opened a competition to celebrate their 90th birthday allowing netizens to create a design to be painted onto a plane. -
Netizens wonder whether the hundreds of millions of roubles spent on new interactive touchscreen panels at bus-stops in the centre of the capital are worth it. -
Pictures have surfaced on the internet of Putin standing with a man who looks like murdered crimelord Grandfather Hassan. Peskov denies that it is Hassan pictured. -
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Russian netizens are showing concern over photos of a 19-year-old girl, who appears to be suffering from an eating disorder. Netizens are worried about her health. -
Forbidden from snowball fights, people look elsewhere to release their aggression during the long winter. Netizens are intrigued and impressed by the performance. -
Netizens debate what Putin could possibly have said to cause this young boy to pull this face in a photo captured at a Christmas service in a convent in Sochi. -
Police in St. Petersburg have stopped a snowball fight due to take place in a park in the city. Two people were arrested, and risk fines of thousands of roubles. -
This beautiful collection of Russian Soviet New Year cards reminds netizens of their youth. The article talks about the prohibition of Christmas under Stalin. -
A group of Moscow artists have created a set of pictures which show Moscow without wires, adverts and other "visual garbage", but netizens aren't convinced. -
After North Korea's recent successful rocket launch, a Russian blogger has put together a set of pictures showing similarities between Korea and the Soviet Union. -
A cosplay convention held in Moscow has attracted a good number of people, and shows that anime and Japanese culture is alive and well even in Western Russia. -
After a law requiring all NGOs receiving foreign funding to declare themselves foreign agents, graffiti has appeared on the headquarters of a human rights group. -
Gennadiy Semakov, Archangelsk's oldest artist, mocks socialist realism by using the style of the paintings to show naked women in a variety of household situations.
