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There are 9 item(s) tagged with the keyword "towns".

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1. All the Village Is a Stage

Performance art, adventure, and psychedelia in a Russian village. What more could you want?

Tags: towns, village life, art, theater
2. What's in a Name?

Yandex.Maps has completed a surprising study of all the places in Russia, and they even figured out how to get from the Moon to Mars. 

Tags: alphabet, travel, Internet, humor, village, towns, cities, yandex
3. An Architectural Crime; or, Shedquarters

A new village police station, unveiled with much pomp, occupies what appears to be a repurposed corrugated metal shed.

Tags: government, cities, towns, village life, corruption, police
4. A Good Reason to Join the Military

A young woman in Kursk has been using her feminine wiles to hand over conscription notices.

Tags: bureaucracy, government, towns, women, military
5. Sore Loser Turns Supervillain

A recently defeated incumbent politician has turned off the water supply in part of his district. Out of spite.

Tags: Chelyabinsk, city, towns, government, politics
6. I'm Not Dead Yet

A hospital in Kursk is under investigation after a woman awoke post-surgery in the morgue.

Tags: towns, medicine, healthcare, health
7. Criminal Camels

A herd of camels, released by an 83-year-old pensioner, is wreaking havoc in Astrakhan region.

Tags: news, humor, towns, elderly, animals, astrakhan
8. The Government Inspector Gets a Monument

A town in Volgograd Oblast prepares to welcome Gogol's Inspector... again.

Tags: Volgograd, culture, monuments, towns, literature, Gogol
9. Veliky Ustyug

Yuli Lyubeznikov and Alexandra Ivanova show off their town, one of the oldest in the Russian North: Veliky Ustyug

Tags: travel, towns, winter, Father Frost
By Lyubeznikov and Ivanova

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