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There are 8 item(s) tagged with the keyword "memorial".

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1. Beginning of the End?

Two appropriate birthday "presents" for Russia's authoritarian-in-chief.

Tags: ukraine, war, nobel, memorial, dissent, putin
2. Sniper Cover to Honor the Fallen

Putin pays his respects at a memorial cemetery - by locking out the survivors and setting up snipers.

Tags: security, st. petersburg, Memorial, siege of leningrad, putin
3. Repeat Offenses: Mothers Grieve a Spectacular Repast

It was not the first time, and is likely not the last: a woman chose the wrong spot for her spectacular repast...

Will they ever learn?

Tags: criminal cooks, pushkino, monument, memorial, eternal flame, grilled meat
4. Grilling over an Open (Memorial) Flame

These people didn’t choose the best place to cook food for their picnic.

Tags: eternal flame, Memorial
5. 13 Massive Russian Monuments You Need to See

In which we share some of Russia's big monuments (and moments) – from ice battles to DNA in stone and steel.

Tags: Volgograd, science, space, arctic, great patriotic war, lenin, alexander nevsky, Moscow, peter the great, memory, Memorial, soviet era, soviet union, soviet
6. Russian History in 13 Unusual Memorials

A time-travelling tour of Russia from aristocats to nosy bureaucrats

Tags: Yekaterinburg, murmansk, cheese, great patriotic war, novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, samara, cat, elizabeth, peter the great, kopeck, wooly mammoth, Gogol, monuments, Memorial
7. Zombies, a Swampy Lake, and a New Shirtless Challenge

A not-quite lake makes a splash, zombies on public transit, and problems memorializing history's tragedies. But on the bright side, shirtless men and hippos.

Tags: Memorial, zombies, metro, Sladkoe, Kazakhstan, Russia
By Alice E.M. Underwood
8. A Photo Guide to Russia's Lesser-Known WWII Sites

2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Revisit the history on this tour of St. Petersburg and Moscow's war sites – the ones you may not find in the guidebook.

Tags: WWII, war, moscow, st. petersburg, memorial
By Mariana Noble

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