#russia: moscow

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RUSH! photos from the box set part 1 part 2 part 3

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Moscow, Russia - December 2023

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Moscow's neon signs (1964)

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Unexpected friend. September 2024.

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capital city tower moscow

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Ryabushinsky Manison, Gorki House (1901) Located: Moscow, Russia

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Book covers for mystery novels compilations based in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Twitter | VK | INPRNT | Leave a tip

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Russian Jews dancing secretly in a Moscow forest on Rosh Hashanah, 1977

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ST. BASIL'S CHURCH - MOSCOW

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[Edit today we know that more than 100 are dead, including children, oh and it took police an hour to do sth, great!]

In case you don't know yet, hundreds of people were in a famous concert hall with their children when terrorists entered the building, killed security, went on a fucking stage and started to shoot at people. They threw grenades, set fire to the building. And it basically happened in Moscow.

At least 60 people died, more than 140 people are injured. One child died for now and lots of kids are still in the hospital with severe damage. We still don't know the exact numbers.

And it turns out that our government and some other kinda knew about some planning attacks. Which is absolutely great and cool and awesome.

Armed people are walking on city streets and nobody cares, they would certainly care if they saw a rainbow sign on someone, cause it's an absolutely valid reason to send special forces on them. But armed people? What harm might they cause

Goodnight indeed. My family and friends are safe, but we don't feel safe anymore.

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Moscow, Russia - September 2024

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Newspaper stand in Moscow (1976)

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Models have a break after physical training, Moscow, 1990 (photo by Valery Khristoforov).

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Moscow Auction House Sells a $1 Million Painting Stolen from a Ukrainian Museum

In Russia, Ukrainian artist Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” has been put up for auction, according to Ukraine’s former Deputy Attorney General and Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Gyunduz Mamedov, who has reported the auction plans.

Russia’s looting and destruction of Ukrainian museums and cultural heritage sites have resulted in significant losses, with nearly 40 museums plundered and almost 700 heritage sites damaged or destroyed since the invasion began in February 2022, causing cultural losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros.

The first report that “Moonlit Night” will be the main lot of the auction, which will take place at the Moscow Auction House on 18 February, appeared on the Telegram channel by Russia’s state-funded news agency RIA Novosti, noting that the painting was estimated at 100 million rubles (approximately $1.09 million) before the sale.

‘In 2017, [Interpol], at the request of [Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Crimea], put the paintings on the international wanted list. Thus, Russia openly disregards [international law], as according to the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the export of cultural properties and transfer of ownership is prohibited,” Mamedov emphasized on X.

In 2014, during the early stages of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” was illegally transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum, along with 52 other artworks.

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some of his works were destroyed in an airstrike on the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol, and others were looted by Russian forces from Mariupol and Kherson museums, including “The Storm Subsides,” which was moved to the Central Taurida Museum in Simferopol, Crimea.

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St. Basil Cathedral ~ Moscow, Russia

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'Fight only in sports!'

Moscow Olympic Games poster featuring fencing (1980). Art and design by Z. Smekhov and D. Filatov.