Watch a 550-ton Russian hovercraft land on the beach… as hundreds of Russian vacation there [Video]
I wonder what the captain of this hovercraft was thinking prior to the landing: Ay mates, let's go say hi to hundreds of our fellow comrades.
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Truck carrying 36 gas tanks crashes in Russia, creates an awesome explosion [Video]
Don't worry -- no body died.
Russian wireless carriers stop selling the iPhone
According to Hi-Tech Mail, Russia’s three biggest wireless carriers, VimpelCom Beeline, MegaFon and MTS, have recently decided to stop selling the Apple iPhone to their customers, likely due to the intense and rigid conditio...
Russian government is buying a bunch of typewriters to help avoid Snowden-like leaks
Internal leaks got you down? Recent high profile government leaks, such as the WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden revelations, have spooked the Russian government (which is actually housing Snowden right now), leading the Kremlin to pla...
Russia has plans to build a floating nuclear power plant ship
Russia is expected to press a floating nuclear power plant into service in the year 2016. The floating vessel is expected to provide electricity to remote locations in Russia where building a nuclear reactor is simply not feasible...
In the future, you’ll be able to take a train from London to Tokyo
So you board a train in London, cross Europe, then Russia… and arrive in Tokyo? It sounds like something only possible in a distant sci-fi future, but now it’s looking it might be a reality. Earlier this month, officia...
Apple reportedly files for ‘iWatch’ trademark in Russia
Is Apple’s fabled iWatch actually happening? According to Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, Apple has filed a trademark for the term “iWatch” in Russia. Previous reports have claimed that the iWatch could see a rele...
Eruption of a volcano, as seen from space [Amazing Photo of the Day]
Volcano eruptions are not very fun for the people who live nearby — having to evacuate, property damage (destruction), death in some cases, etc. However, volcano eruptions from space look, to put it simply, awesome. The foll...
Fireball flies over Russia and explodes [Video] *Updated to include working videos*
Last year in October we shared an image and video that depicted fireballs. If you recall from that post, a fireball is not something from Harry Potter, a sci-fi novel, or a flick. Rather, a fireball in the real world is a meteor t...
‘Red October’ is global espionage malware that targeted governments around the world (USA, Iran, Russia, etc.) for 5 years… without being detected
Researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab have discovered something that sounds like it came straight out of a spy movie. A massive, on-going espionage network targeting hundreds of governmental, diplomatic and scientific orga...
Russia pays tribute to Steve Jobs with a giant iPhone
Just a little over a year after Steve Jobs passed away, Russians pay tribute to the former Apple CEO with a giant iPhone. The tribute is located in St. Petersburg, and was designed by Gleb Tarasov was chosen among 200 other entran...