Questions Thread for Russian topics

There has been an item of "news", that has recently been making the rounds here, about an advertisement in Moscow with breast shots that have caused 500 traffic accidents.

Can somebody from Russia tell us if this is true or not?

Morpheus Eberhardt wrote:There has been an item of "news", that has recently been making the rounds here, about an advertisement in Moscow with breast shots that have caused 500 traffic accidents.

Can somebody from Russia tell us if this is true or not?

No doubt that they caused a couple accidents, but 500+? - They probably counted general accidents in the surrounding area of the truck-side advertisements (30 trucks!), which would explain the unreal number suggested by the media. Having 30 of those inaccurate reports and that number becomes realistic, in a false way...

500+? Maybe through whole day in Moscow district  Sounds like bad journalism. 
When they put massive led commercial screen in main street next to my house we got 7 accidents through same day. And 1 was fatal. It was new thing there. Next to busy junction. When it got dark it was uncalibrated and too bright.. I can see boobs having similar effect

Dear Russian members - could you share your experiences about what was life like in Russia in years 1992-1999? the time universally considered the worst period in history of Russian Federation.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Dear Russian members - could you share your experiences about what was life like in Russia in years 1992-1999? the time universally considered the worst period in history of Russian Federation.

Not exactly qualified to post here but I do have some input.

Well, given the short timeframe the RF it should be considered the darkest time period.

Some of my earliest memories were back in those times. Didn't understand things like I do now but I can say things were not good, I knew that much. Still hear horrible stories of some of the things that occurred to people during those times from my parents and relatives. I would love to hear more from others here too.

Small question: what is NGO Officers of Russia ?

https://rbth.com/news/2016/09/25/russian-ngo-blocks-entrance-to-jock-sturges-exhibition-in-moscow_633043

The Officers of Russia non-governmental organization has blocked entrance to the exhibition of the U.S. photographer Jock Sturges in Moscow in a protest against promoting his works, the organization’s head, and chair of the Public Chamber’s defense commission, Anton Tsvetkov said on Sep. 25.

Social networks and the media wrote Sturges’ works picturing nude adolescents are pornographic. Russia’s high-ranking legislator Elena Mizulina said the exhibition should be closed at once.

f considered in Russia, the works by Jock Sturges could be qualified as crime.

"Right, he could have become famous by good pictures, but remember, this man used to participate in crimes. And he likewise was brought to responsibility also in the United States, though later on was justified. But that is under their legislation, and under our legislation taking pictures of nude children and exposing them is not allowed," he said.

https://www.rt.com/news/360588-sturges-exhibition-moscow-controversy/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

An exhibition by US photographer Jock Sturges, best known for his works featuring teenage nudity, has been shut down in Moscow after some protesters blocked the venue and accused the artist of shooting child pornography.

Camouflaged men, representing the NGO Officers of Russia, turned up at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography on Sunday afternoon. They blocked the entrance to the building, saying they were going to evaluate the contents of the exhibition for “pedophilic” contents.

After negotiations with the activists, the Lumiere Brothers Center decided to close the controversial exhibition.

I have a question for Russian film industry . Why Russia not make films for export market ? Just look at RT . How well it is doing . Like a breath of fresh air . Someone once said Russia lost big time to Hollywood . The only Russian film I saw was the one about that space planet brain . The one about good versus evil. And another about love story in Baku fishermen pick up a sailor . Chinese made film about flying daggers . India made films about love story singing . And Hollywood made gangster films . Even Iran made film with universal appeal to world market . Don't Russians know there is money to be made in film ? They are in good position to make film for international market . With universal appeal . The language problem is easy . Just for every scene . Two takes . One English . One Russian . One for export . One domestic . Or make it easy for dubbing . I am tired of Hollywood . State joint venture with private sector to start up . Make Moscowood film . Make Russia known to world also .

nomadski wrote:
I have a question for Russian film industry . Why Russia not make films for export market ? Just look at RT . How well it is doing . Like a breath of fresh air . Someone once said Russia lost big time to Hollywood . The only Russian film I saw was the one about that space planet brain . The one about good versus evil. And another about love story in Baku fishermen pick up a sailor . Chinese made film about flying daggers . India made films about love story singing . And Hollywood made gangster films . Even Iran made film with universal appeal to world market . Don't Russians know there is money to be made in film ? They are in good position to make film for international market . With universal appeal . The language problem is easy . Just for every scene . Two takes . One English . One Russian . One for export . One domestic . Or make it easy for dubbing . I am tired of Hollywood . State joint venture with private sector to start up . Make Moscowood film . Make Russia known to world also .

Some Russian movies had important international display, many from Timur Bekmambetov (his Night Watch/Day Watch series. He also worked out of Russia, with his Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter). He is not exactly my style, but then just to show that some Russian movies are shown abroad.
Also, here in Argentina (which is not exactly a country close to Russia, be geographically or culturally) I could watch on cable TV "22 Minuty", the film about the rescue of the kidnapped ship "Moskovski Universitet" by Somalian pirates. Once in a while I find Russian movies in cable here.
Then, Russia and the former Soviet countries is a big market, and most Russian movies are thought for it. If you look around, you can find Russian movies with subtitles. This is what I do. And I find much more interesting then expecting Russians to make movies for export, which then would most likely be copies of Hollywood movies: as Bekmambetov do.

Hello SVY,

Thanks for your reply . Good to know . What you said . About alternate cinema . Subtitles . And satellite or cable TV . I can not afford cable or satellite TV. Where I live there is no alternate cinema . I have no money to buy dvd . I get free broadcast . Using old fashioned TV arieal . Digital TV signal . I have a twenty year old TV . Most films I see are American Hollywood . I like them a little . But get tired of them also . Predictable . Nothing new . Sometimes the odd intellectual swedish film comes up . But again subtitles . And no exciting shooting or barbarism . I am sadly hooked on junk . And have modest means . And so are a large portion of the planet's population . Starving people in concentration camp of WWII . Were given food . But they were not used to it and died . Russia broadcasts news from RT . I watch this . But for entertainment , I am forced to watch Rambo . Where he kills all the Russians and Germans and Iranian and Muslims ....I need a film called Rambofski . Where he kills some yanks and some terrorists and builds a hospital in the end .......made for TV. Good quality but not high budget . Sold to TV companies for TV broadcast . Or on RT . For evening entertainment .

Mosfilm (Russia's biggest studio) has its own channel in Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm
Many complete films (mostly from the Soviet era) can be watched for free. Many with subtitles. Better than nothing. Some are classics still widely watched in Russia today, like "The White Sun of the Desert", highly recommeded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPOwblHNOnQ&list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TPLZbU-K3ic_HODgNTppT9&index=17

They also have a quite recent (from 2012) and excellent war movie (I already watched it) in Youtube, "White Tiger":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGDJ5-dXaI&list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TPLZbU-K3ic_HODgNTppT9&index=25

nomadski wrote:
I have a question for Russian film industry . Why Russia not make films for export market ? Just look at RT . How well it is doing . Like a breath of fresh air . Someone once said Russia lost big time to Hollywood . The only Russian film I saw was the one about that space planet brain . The one about good versus evil. And another about love story in Baku fishermen pick up a sailor . Chinese made film about flying daggers . India made films about love story singing . And Hollywood made gangster films . Even Iran made film with universal appeal to world market . Don't Russians know there is money to be made in film ? They are in good position to make film for international market . With universal appeal . The language problem is easy . Just for every scene . Two takes . One English . One Russian . One for export . One domestic . Or make it easy for dubbing . I am tired of Hollywood . State joint venture with private sector to start up . Make Moscowood film . Make Russia known to world also .

Thats a really good post. I'm British born, but of Russian descent on one half of my family. So Ru-English productions would really interest me, and I'm sure vast numbers of others.

If a programme is REALLY good, it can work with subtitles. I'm thinking KIngdom, the German series. And Gomorrah, the Italian mafia one. Also Matrioshki, the Belgian one. All appeared on British TV.

But yes, dual takes would be terrific.

I'd tried to find Londongrad, the Russian series filmed in... (duh!) London. But I can't find it on the Net. Perhaps VKontakte will have it.

I'm really bored of Hollywood. They might speak English, but the culture is just alien. We watch US films only because we're "forced" to. The British film industry (outside of hideous Victorian dramas etc) is really small, much like the TV industry in some areas.

Over the next couple of years, I'm considering scaling back the business I'm currently in.
My idea is to write film/TV scripts (I've already got some stuff part  finished). Russia has so many interesting places to film, and its history would really work well. And also, Russia and Europe DO have links, so it would work, plotwise and in terms of getting people interested.

The last big budget US film I watched had British actors but after 20mins I thought "why the fuck am I watching all this again, America is an alien world, I can't identify with it in this film". So I switched over channels.

I have a question for sukhoi company of Russia . Iran tried to buy Boeing and Airbus passenger planes . But there seems to be problems there . Iran also considered buying sukhoi passenger jet . But Iranians said there were problems with tail section of plane? And they just decided to lease them instead for evaluation purposes . Can Russian aviation with such illustrious history make a plane with working tail ? Tail does not contain soup or bananas . Only possible cause is simple hydraulics .

If problem is not the plane tail . Can someone provide info on this . And reliability . In this case the problem is on Iranian official making political problem . I want to know . I support sukhoi company . For civil aviation . Because Iran also wants to buy fighters from Sukhoi . Much better than Boeing . That produce fighters . That Iran has to fight one day .

Thanks .

Have no idea what you are talking about, never heard of any problem with tail section of Sukhoi SuperJet. Anyway, selling this aircraft to Iran would be complicated, as it has a lot of Western (US, European) components, which would be subject to sanctions. But soon perhaps Russia could offer the MS-21, which will have a 100% Made in Russia version since the start.

@svy

Thanks for your reply . As I also suspected , that tail section would have very little that could go wrong with it anyways . To my mind this is a problem on Iranian side . But Russians can provide evidence of reliability to Iranian politicians . So no official can make accusation and trouble . Hope new all Russian made plane becomes available soon . I think both countries can form joint venture company of shared capital including China and India in building competitor aircraft to break western monopoly in important market .

I know the Russian empire had Alaska but I think the long distance away from the rest of the country means they couldn't protect it military. What if Russia kept Alaska do you guys think the USSR or Russian Empire could have protected it from the US during the Russian Revolution in 1917 or during or after World War II? I think it would have been difficult. These two articles do a good job of explaining the situation.

https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/why-didnt-russia-sell-alaska-to-canada.htm

https://brainly.com/question/8492629

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201507311025262334/

My family has experienced disruption in sending money to relatives in Russia living on pensions. This is a new thing as Western Union
and MoneyGram worked before without problems. Now there is a systematic screwup in the name or some other excuse. Multiple
attempts fail to go through. Has anyone else experienced this?

There is already drivel being spewed inside Russia that this is some Russian government attempt to muscle in on the action.
I call BS on this, since this sort of tactic was never used before. If the Russian government wanted to deploy its own
money transfer outlets it would do that first before messing up existing transfers. It looks a lot like another dirty trick
by the west to sow discontent inside Russia.

It is something new and neither of the western money transfer outfits I mentioned stopped taking money for transfers.
If it was official sanctions pressure, then they would stop the service. Instead it looks like we have dirty tricks "sanctions".
America and its pals are getting desperate and will be trying to throw everything they can to bring Russia down.