Beautiful Rosh Hashanah wishes for you, your friends, family, near and dear ones.
I took this beautiful slideshow from incredible slideshow blog The most beautiful slideshows – daily! of our best friend Chelita who lives now in Israel.
Where to meet Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year)? Maybe in Israel or maybe in little Ukrainian town Uman. Read the article Russian Video: Uman! Rosh Hashana! to find out why :).
Today I want to tell you about the first visit of Soviet leader to USA. It was exactly 50 years ago, Nikita Khrushchev visited USA. President of USA was Eisenhower at this time and he invited Nikita Khrushchev with his whole family to visit America. You will enjoy watching these videos and see how Khrushchev personalities blends with American leaders.
The 8th Moscow International Circus Festival of Young Artists (from 12 to 25) is over. So today let’s watch some videos of the best Russian young circus artists from this festival.
A quartet of pole acrobats “Russian Pole”: Elena Konakova, Sergey Mazurin, Vasily Konakov, Vbkhail Konakov (“Gold Elephant” – 2009)
The Tsaritsyno museum hosts lots of brides and grooms everyday. But On September 9, 2009: More than a thousand couples got married at the Tsaritsyno museum in Moscow on that particular day. That is three times the usual daily figure.
This short video just shows some of the weddings! It is fun…
Today you could hear sound of metronome and the wail of the sirens in St.Petersburg. Leningrad remembers the Blockade – 900 days and nights of artillery attacks and terrible starvation. A worker got 250 grams of bread a day all others got twice less. Leningrad outstayed but the price was incredible. There were more than 500 000 people buried only on Peskarevsky cemetery…
Sound of metronome is symbol of the Blockade of Leningrad – metronome sounded during the Blockade 24 hours a day on the radio. The siren wailed 3740 times during the blockade.
Today we are watching Day of Memory from St.Petersburg: