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This month
LAÏKA (SHORT VERSION) on Vimeo
by misspo
First, a hint of history :
Laïka was a Russian female dog. She also was picked to be the first earthling ever sent to space - in 1957, aboard Sputnik II. What history often forgets is that the poor bitch died in the process :-(
June 2009
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April 2009
Russian Wall-E Case Mod
by xibe
A solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from the metal sheets processed and put in place. Swiss precision homemade heavy metal WallE geeky step-by-step
Online dictionary service in English, Spanish, German and other languages by Collins Lexibase
by fotopol
& 1 other
Free dictionary online: translation in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, definitions, synonyms…
February 2009
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2002 | The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910 - 1934
by sbrothier
& 2 others
Timeline dans book index
January 2009
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
by kuroyagi
"after months of research and surveys, Mozilla learned that their “Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search.” So in the next build of Firefox, the default search provider will be Yandex for Russian users."
December 2008
Raw Photo Processor (RPP)
by rmaltete
& 2 others
A Raw converter for Mac OS X (10.4 or 10.5 only), supporting almost all available digital Raw formats made for photographers by a photographer-software engineer with unmeasurable amount of help and tutoring from my friend, professional photographer Iliah Borg. We just got fed up with those converters made by programmers for their upper management :) Also I want to express my special appreciation to Alex Tutubalin (the link is in Russian) for providing this project with web hosting on early stages when I didn’t have this site!
Internet Archive: Details: Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1917)
by sbrothier
In rare footage, Czar Nicholas of Russia mounts his horse. During the Russian Revolution, in 1917, he and his entire family were murdered by the Bolchevicks.
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery
by karlcow
During the 1960’s, faced with an unstable foreign policy as well as a high demand for resources, the People’s Republic of China was forced to delocalise most of its heavy industry and armament factories. Originally situated on China’s coasts and in the North East close to the Russian border, these factories were obliged to relocate in the countries heartlands, hidden away and better protected...
June 2008
May 2008
K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.0 Released
by tadeufilippini
(via)
KDE 4.0 Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Also available in: Bengali (India) Catalan Chinese Czech Dutch French German Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Italian Latvian Malayalam Marathi Persian Polish Punjabi Portuguese (Brazilian) Romanian Russian Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil
KDE Project Ships Fourth Major Version of cutting edge Free Software Desktop
With the fourth major version, the KDE Community marks the beginning of the KDE 4 era.
January 11, 2008 (The INTERNET).
The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era.
March 2008
